So what will your reaction be when the USSC shitcans all of these ridiculous handgun bans?

[bluestateguy]

The Brady Bunch will be in full hysteria ("Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!! Ewwww my nose!").

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[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Oh hell yeah! Lets ban them all and only Blackwater and the criminals

will own guns. Great idea!

[Trajan]

4. Criminals own guns when DUers embrace Scalia ?

Or do DUers embrace Scalia and his pals when criminals own guns ?...

I cant tell ....

Frankly: Im pretty sure California isnt going to miss ya ....

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Cool, maybe I can buy an H&K P30 in California!

But fuck California. I'm moving out in October.

[X_Digger]

5. Ehn.. nothing immediate past Chicago..

.. and even then, Chicaco will pull a DC and implement a byzantine, high fee registration scheme.

It'll be years and years before we get real reform, one case at a time.

[Statistical]

25. Yup the long fight.

It took decades for the antis to slowly grind down the 2A.

It isn't going to be restored overnight.

Every year a combination legislative action, lobbying, fund raising, holding elected official accountable, and lawsuits will slowly inch by inch restore the 2A.

90%+ of the fight is fought at the state level. I don't expect the federal govt to get more "pro RKBA" but can try to keep the line static there.

[X_Digger]

28. Agreed. Heller and hopefully McDonald....

will serve as a bulwark against further federal and eventually state encroachment.

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[AnOhioan]

7. Yeah,,,thats what ya get with a rightwinger as Chief Justice

[TheWraith]

34. The court decides as a whole.

Remember this is the same court makeup that tossed out the Military Commissions Act and laws against gay sex.

[katandmoon]

8. Oh, it's your irrational fear of having to go out in the world without a gun to protect you that is

so risible.

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13. How's that "irrational" fear of guns...

and/or gun owners working out for'ya?

[GreenStormCloud]

17. In 2008, according to the FBI, there were over 1,300,000 violent crimes in the U.S.

And that is only the reported violent crimes. Many aren't reported. I choose to not live in denial of the possibility that I could be targeted by a violent felon. Instead, my wife and I choose to be prepared, just in case we are unlucky enough to be some thug's selection for next victim.

Last year I was unlucky enough to be in an auto accident with a person who had an arrest warrant on him and the police said the was listed as "armed and dangerous". (He attempted a U-turn on an Interstate.) He was captured as a result of the accident. You never know what life is about to throw at you. A few years ago a mugger was about to attack my wife, but her .38 convinced him to run away - no shots fired.

[cowman]

41. wow

that was brilliant:sarcasm:

[paulsby]

47. fear canard

yah!

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9. This...

:party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: :party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause:
:party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: :party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause:
:party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: :party: :toast: :bounce: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: ...

Well, you get the idea. :smoke:

BTW... DU is severely lacking in firearms realated smileys... like this one for example...



I think it's something worth considering (at least for the "Gun Dungeon"). B-)

[spin]

30. That's one great firearms related smiley!!! (n/t)

[Sinistrous]

10. Support a Constitutional amendment that will

rationally, but severely, limit personal firearms.

I won't be alone.

What will be your reaction when THAT passes?

[oneshooter]

11. Please enlighten us on what

"rationally, but severely, limit personal firearms" would be.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[armueller2001]

24. I'm curious to know

the answer to this question as well..

[Abq_Sarah]

14. ROTFL!

Never happen.

Once you start stripping people of protected rights, yours will be on the chopping block as well.

[X_Digger]

15. You and the other 28% who want to ban handguns?

Or you and the 20% who think that the second amendment doesn't protect an individual right?




http://www.gallup.com/poll/108394/Americans-Agreement-Supreme-Court-Gun-Rights.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123596/In-U.S.-Record-Low-Support-Stricter-Gun-Laws.aspx

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18. I think the odds are better...

that we'll have a gay, black, trans gendered dwarf with a lisp as President before that happens.

[GreenStormCloud]

19. It won't pass. Perhaps you should review the procedure for ammending the constitution.

It takes 3/4 of the states to ratify and amendment. That means that any 13 states can block ratification. Since 40 states have adopted shal-issue concealed carry, I don't think we would have any trouble finding 13 to block it.

Let us know when you can get one congresscritter to introduce such an item into congress.

[TPaine7]

21. Personally, when that happens I will

cash in my dozens of lottery tickets and my long shot bet in Vegas ($50 should get me a $Billion or so) and buy my own island.

Where guns will be allowed.

[Jackson1999]

22. I actually agree with you.

If you really don't like the 2nd Amendment, think it is antiquated etc., then by all means support an amendment to water it down. This is what pro-gun control people should have been doing during the 60s. That is a debatable arguement and although I don't agree with it, respect it.

What I DON'T respect is people who want to pretend that 2A does not exist, or that we can shortcut changing the constitution. The Founders put in place a tough, but doable process to change it.

[Statistical]

27. +1. No reason to attack him.

The founding fathers intended the Constitution to be adaptable however they also made it rather difficult for changes to be made to temporary political pressure. As such out of the thousands of proposed amendments only 26 have ever been ratified.

However it CAN be done.

I have 1000% more respect for someone using the legal authorized framework to modify the Constitution than I do for the deniers who want to pretend the 2A doesn't exist and infringe upon it at will.

That being said I will do everything in my power including donating time, money, and resources to ensure it never happens but I see no reason to attack or insult him/her for suggesting it.

[pipoman]

23. Yeah, that won't even pass right here in GD

You do realize you are the fringe, no?

[cowman]

29. Keep dreaming

grasshopper, never happen, even the Pres. has given up on gun control and poll after poll has shown widespread support for RKBA but hey "fairy tales can come true they can happen to you" NOT

[PavePusher]

32. Good luck with that.

By the bye, how do you propose to collect all the guns that you plan on making "illegal"? Will you volunteer to help with the job? Or do you plan on taking the moral high ground and sending hired, expendable minions?

[AtheistCrusader]

35. I don't plan on living several hundred years

so I doubt I'll ever see it pass.

[Ter]

39. It will never pass

Two thirds majority in both Houses, and three fourths of the states. Hahaha, delusional.

[proteus_lives]

40. It never will.

Why do you want to restrict the rights of other people?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

43. My reaction right now is to laugh my ass off.

[Pavulon]

45. That will be right after the skies part and jesus comes back to rapture us all rpt +5 min..(nt)

[jody]

46. SCOTUS says "in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 553 (1876), '[t]his is not a

right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed".

Presumably it is not possible to amend our Constitution to ban RKBA.

[Skink]

12. this is an economic stimulus program.

It's about the only think we make now.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Dump Pfizer stock.

[GreenStormCloud]

20. Now that's funny. N/T

[AtheistCrusader]

36. Thinly veiled penis reference.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

38. Oh, c'mon... that was funny.

[Hoopla Phil]

26. Not too sure I like it. Could cause supply to go down and price to go up.

Just sayen. . .

[MichaelHarris]

31. I'm not one to cheer

the Supreme Court that handed our country over to Corporate America. You on the other hand can take comfort in knowing your gun is safe. Some of us have more important priorities.

[cowman]

33. Yup my most

important priority is making it to Sept. and retirement and me and the wife doing some traveling across this great country.

[AtheistCrusader]

37. Yep, the Supreme Court certainly cares a lot about a measly 2bn dollar industry.

In a GDP nation over 10 trillion.

That there's big potatoes.



Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. You'll thank us later maybe, when the SC stands up for other rights under attack. Frankly I'd prefer all these cycles were spent tearing down FISA, the Patriot Act, and getting rid of telecom immunity for corporations that enable breach of our 4th amendment rights without warrant.

But there's this group that keeps trying to infringe upon another of our basic rights, so, it's an issue we have to deal with.

[friendly_iconoclast]

42. Funny, a poster on the LBN McD. vs. Chicago thread is using the same meme

Those evil corporations/NRA/GOP are just using this case.

I mean, poor, naive Mr. McDonald (amongst others) couldn't possibly have decided all on their own that they want to own handguns, now could they?

Gotta be an conspiracy!

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

44. Gotta start restoring rights somewhere. Might as well start there.