I'm a Bitter Gun Owner and I Vote

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
I'm a Bitter Gun Owner and I Vote
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Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:33am

How do you guys feel about Obama's ignorance about and votes against the second amendment?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 2:20pm
I imagine if this
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-18-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 2:41pm

Well, hell, I do that anyway.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-31-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 3:46pm

On the issues has a section on Obama and gun control.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 4:06pm
Thanks for the link.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 4:42pm

>Sandy, there were many pistols back in those days that you could easily conceal under your coat.

Sandy
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 5:17pm

I stand corrected.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-23-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 5:53pm
I don't own a gun but if I decide to get one I don't want Obama or anyone else to prevent me from getting one.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-15-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:13pm

"As an ex-community organizer in the Chicago housing projects, he has the experience to make an intelligent interpretation of the second amendment."


You mean like the DC ban that Obama supported that was declared unconstitutional?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:22pm

Scalia invited litigation in the opinion of DC v Heller. What Heller actually said is that a total ban on handguns is not acceptable. But in the majority opinion, he warned that the decision was not to be interpreted as an absoute right of everyone to own guns.


So why can't Obama say there has to be a way to reconcile gun ownership with some protects and restrictions? That's what Scalia said in the opinion.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 7:39pm

Here's a link to the opinion:


http://www.docstoc.com/docs/856222/DC-v-Heller


Go to page 57 on the opinion. I tried to copy it, but I can't figure out how. But the language is:


"Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited."


If you remember, I said this opinion was a can of worms that invited litigation. So if Obama doesn't go as far as you might like, neither did Scalia.

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