Supreme Court to hand down a major second amendment decision on Monday
Tomorrow is the last day of the Supreme Court’s 2010 term and there are a couple of decisions that are expected to be handed down. I would like to focus on one of them.
The Supreme Court is going to rule on Chicago’s handgun ban. It is expected that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the ban, thereby extending the Heller decision– which did not apply to states because Washington D.C. is a national enclave– to the citizens who happen to live in Chicago. But it is also expected that the Supreme Court will extend this ruling to all citizens of the United States granting them second amendment rights regardless of where they live.
If– as expected– the Supreme Court renders the decision that all Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, and extend that decision to all states and cities in the United States we will have earned a long awaited victory for the second amendment.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
The wording seems simple enough, and after tomorrow the Supreme Court may have finally decided that the word “people” really does mean “people.” It is hard to believe it has taken this long, but tomorrow may be the day that advocates of the second amendment have been waiting for.
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Oh! I so hope this happens ! We could use a major victory!
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Steve – something is wrong with your twitter. I tried to tweet your post and it wouldn’t work. I think it might be because you url is so long. I had to do it manually after I shortened you url. Just a FYI.
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I just tried tweeting it, the first time it said twitter was over capacity. So I tried it again and it seemed to work. Thank you!
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Hopefully the good guy will win one!
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(Reuters) – The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.
“Governments must resist US demands to give any single state the power to veto the treaty as this could hold the process hostage during the course of negotiations. We call on all governments to reject such a veto clause,” said Oxfam International’s policy adviser Debbie Hillier.
The proposed legally binding treaty would tighten regulation of, and set international standards for, the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons.
Supporters say it would give worldwide coverage to close gaps in existing regional and national arms export control systems that allow weapons to pass onto the illicit market.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015
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Don’t anyone think that overturning the Chicago gun ban will the end. That nut case mayor, Daley, will likely move immediately to impose grossly burdensome registration and licensing restrictions on gun owners. I’m suspect he might even try to apply some outrageous tax, fee, tariff (whatever he can get away with) on not only gun sales, but ammunition and reloading supplies.
What is it about the anti-gun nuts that they just don’t understand the inverse consequences that occur when they’re trying to do a ‘good thing’ by banning guns…?
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I agree, Steve. If this ruling goes as we expect it will, as it should go, Daley will no doubt launch a full scale movement, aimed at doing anything he can to restrict the right of American citizens to keep and bear arms. He is amazingly predictable in that regard.
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And now he has stated exactly that. He is readying new laws to counter the SC decision.
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