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Gun Control Reform Activism

Hoyt

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2. I hope someday soon the 4 dissenting Justices in Heller will become 5.

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 04:30 PM

Feb 2014

Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer join, dissenting --

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZD.html

The dissenting Justices make far more sense than the majority, but even Scalia said restrictions are allowed.

" . . . . . . When each word in the text [of the Second Amendment] is given full effect, the Amendment is most naturally read to secure to the people a right to use and possess arms in conjunction with service in a well-regulated militia. . . . . . ."

One day soon, those Justices bought off by the NRA and the right/white wingers will not be in the majority.

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Is the Second Amendment Absolute? [View all] billh58 Feb 2014 OP

No. elleng Feb 2014 #1

I hope someday soon the 4 dissenting Justices in Heller will become 5. Hoyt Feb 2014 #2

It's also more than a little billh58 Feb 2014 #3

For a second, I thought the question was... lastlib Feb 2014 #4

Since we do have billh58 Feb 2014 #5