Comments on: Supreme Court Upholds Individual Right To Keep And Bear Arms

By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Heller v. District of Columbia, Round Two

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:47:50 +0000

[...] over a month after the United States Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, the man who brought that case is suing the District again over it’s response to the Supreme [...]

By: James Young

James Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:19:06 +0000

Were the majority a little more forthright, Justice Stevens might have been forced to observe that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to protect the right of revolution to overthrow oppressive government.”

Of course, then the implicit and inevitable link between gun-grabbers and big government types would have been made a little too clear for the polis.

By: tfr

tfr — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:15:32 +0000

Yah, if you read the Post article, Scalia is quoted:

“… the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table”

So I guess he anticipated the dissenting opinion.
It’s scary that perhaps 4 of 9 justices feel that NO tool should be off limits to elected officials.