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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?
| 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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Well, hell, I do that anyway.
On the issues has a section on Obama and gun control.
>Sandy, there were many pistols back in those days that you could easily conceal under your coat.
I stand corrected.
"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?
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.
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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