Second Amendment Gets Its Day In Court
Posted on March 16, 2008
Despite mountains of scholarly research, enough books to fill a library shelf and decades of political battles about gun control, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity this week that is almost unique for a modern court when it examines whether the District’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.
The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment’s meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years.
“This may be one of the only cases in our lifetime when the Supreme Court is going to be interpreting the meaning of an important provision of the Constitution unencumbered by precedent,†said Randy E. Barnett, a constitutional scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. “And that’s why there’s so much discussion on the original meaning of the Second Amendment.â€
The outcome could roil the 2008 political campaigns, send a national message about what kinds of gun control are constitutional and finally settle the question of whether the 27-word amendment, with its odd structure and antiquated punctuation, provides an individual right to gun ownership or simply pertains to militia service.
Now, instead of boring you with the regular right wing talking points, I will refer you to our good friend, The Guntoting Liberal who makes his own predictions:
Annnnd, heeeeeeeeere’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for, and I boldly predict our Constitutionally protected Right To Keep And Bear Arms will be protected in a 5-4 decision by the Republican-dominated Supreme Court of The United States of America.
The four “nays†of course, will give plenty of fodder for my well-meaning fellow libs for decades to come as the losing justices will write blistering, dissenting comments in favor of a town’s “right†to trump our individual, God-granted RIGHT to point a gun at a raving lunatic on crack with bad intentions and bulging muscles.
Somehow, predictably (as per Darwin’s Theory), many of my fellow libs will tell us this is why we have the police; we just need a larger “Police State†and everybody will play “nicey-nice†with each other once all of the rocks, sticks, baseball bats, SUV’s (remember the terrorist who ran down a bunch of college students with one of those?), knives, box-cutters, steroids and weight sets (gotta eliminate those bulging muscles from the “bad guysâ€, right?), and, oh yeah — GUNS, TOO — from “societyâ€. And, again — four SCOTUS justices will be in agreement with them. Only, they’ll not have the GUTS to speak it.
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The second amendment has had success for a couple plus centuries and to leave it in the lands of black robed politicians is suicide - One of these times a few men will Row V Wade it the language needs n interpretation from a court that created the Kelo monster. Ot os time to question the value of a sumpreme court - major didputes should go to congress -at least we elect them