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(5,737 posts)Over the years, the courts have ruled time and time again that limits can be put on gun ownership.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . the majority effectively discounted the "well-regulated militia" clause, affirming a nearly unfettered individual right to own guns, and even handguns. So where does that leave us?
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(688 posts)LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I've been saying this for weeks and I am so glad to hear someone back me up.
I didn't know the history (thanks for providing that)...just that it's usefulness is over and it serves no purpose now except to let people keep guns they don't need.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)Way past time to drive a stake through this nonsensical relic.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)A return to the meaning that the SCOTUS recognized until the Robert's SCOTUS bit of judicial fiat.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . so again I ask, where does that leave us?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)can be bought by the NRA. And an activist SCOTUS that in the Heller v DC decision decided to reinterpret the Second Amendment to reflect Justice Scalia's peculiar version of what he called original intent. And to arrive at his version of intent, one must dismiss the first half of the Second Amendment as "merely prefatory".
But this bit of judicial legislating could be undone by the next full Court.
The amending process could take years, and it also depends on convincing a majority of state legislatures to ratify.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)A balance should be struck via Supreme Court interpretation of the meaning of the Amendment.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . when it had the chance to do so in DC v. Heller, so where does that leave us? The Court can't act unless and until a relevant case wends it way through the appeals process, and even then only if it chooses to hear it.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)two state ban on assault style weapons:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0620/Supreme-Court-lets-stand-state-assault-weapon-bans-continuing-trend
To favor abolishment of the 2nd Amendment is to play directly into the hand of the gun nuts.