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In his 2008 dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens insisted that the Second Amendment offers zero protection for what he called the "right to possess and use guns for nonmilitary purposes like hunting and personal self-defense."
In an op-ed for the New York Times, the retired justice reiterated that view, writing that, "For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation." |
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dasing
(3/29/2018)
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| You can erase the words, but can't remove the right!! |
| Comment by:
lbauer
(3/29/2018)
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If Stevens really believes that the Second Amendment is meaningless why exactly is he so determined that we must overturn it?
As I recall Heller went 5/4 to overturn the DC ban on private ownership of firearms by residents, but in a companion finding the court was unanimous in agreeing that the Second Amendment referred to an individual right. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(3/29/2018)
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| MOLON LABE, former "justice" John Paul Jackwagon. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/29/2018)
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| Stevens was a dimwit on the Court (for which Nino justly clowned him), and in retirement he's increased is dimwittitude. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/29/2018)
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| Stevens was a dimwit on the Court (for which Nino justly clowned him), and in retirement he's increased his dimwittitude. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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