[TheForge] Criminal Background Check: way OT

[Peter Hirst]

OK:  I can't stand it any more.  have to chime in with my 2 cents.  Miller 
did NOT say any militia weapon was ok for the private citizen to possess. 
It said that one particular weapon -- a sawed off shotgun --  could even 
arguably be protected because it is not a militia weapon.  If you don't 
believe me, try mounting a .50 or a Mark-19 on your jeep next time you go to 
the park and see how far the 2d amendment argument gets you.

 Second, the SC has NOT said repeatedly that the 2d is a personal right: 
they have said it only once but quite definitively, last year in DC v 
Heller.

SCOTUS also did NOT accept the broad, organic view of what constitutes the 
militia as its justification for the individual right:  in fact they 
rejected any connection whatever between the milita and the right to keep 
and bear arms, choosing instead to treat the first clause as pure precatory 
language.  The only such language in the entire constitution, BTW. You can 
thank the NRA for that.   Conservatives should not take much heart in this. 
By reducing the that  first clause mere surplusage, Scalia reduced the scope 
of the amendment to personal protection in the home, stripping it of any 
meaning whatsoever with repect to securing the community or the state 
against tyranny.  If you think this was a great conservative victory, you 
just watch what happens next time the Fibbies and BATF have some holdout 
faction of  Posse  Comitatus cornered on a remote ridge in Idaho or a 
barracks in Waco.  Go ahead, shoot a burglar in Anacostia, if you think 
that's the grand concept  the framers of the federal government had in mind. 
Scalia has much bigger ideas than that.  He and his buddies couldn't wait to 
get rid of the Militia clause.  Neo conservatism is NOT about States rights. 
Its about preserving the illusion of individual rights while making sure 
that the substance of those rights is completely manageable by the Federal 
government and that the federal government is manageable by certain 
interests.   Sure DC now has to let you keep a 9 in your home, locked and 
loaded.  Big deal.  (Notice BTW that this case is not about the right to 
bear arms -- only to keep them:  that boot has yet to drop.  You want to be 
the one to sue for the right to carry on K Street?).   If the Feds -- or the 
cops for that matter -- want to clean out an armory in Concord, however, 
they won't have to pry that AR 15 out of your cold dead hands:  they'll just 
crush you under an Abrams.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GRAF" <adveniam at att.net>
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Criminal Background Check: way OT


> You might think that way. I might think that way, betcha even Andy V.
> thinks that way.
> Most of the  gang bangers around here 1. Do not believe they will get
> caught .2. If they do they will get nothing  significant as a
> punishment. 3. If they do get a year or two they will be super cool
> amongst their friends.
> They are correct on all counts.
>
> Mike Graf
>
>
>
> Andy Gladish wrote:
>>  What is it that he
>> thinks he needs so badly that he's willing to hurt others and risk his 
>> own
>> safety and liberty?
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:28:58 -0800, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
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