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February 8th, 2008, 05:30 PM #1
Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
The Washington Post reports, “A majority of the Senate and more than half of the members of the House will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.” The brief notes, “This court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms.” It continues, “The District’s prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable.”
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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February 8th, 2008, 06:36 PM #2
Re: Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
Very surprising.
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February 8th, 2008, 06:43 PM #3Super Member
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Re: Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
fuck......
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February 8th, 2008, 06:58 PM #4
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sjl whats wrong? i think you are misreading, the house n senate are standing up for gun owners, this is a good thing, they are urging the ban be over turned
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February 8th, 2008, 07:09 PM #5
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February 8th, 2008, 07:37 PM #6
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Did Casey revive from his coma? He is the typical "get elected and disappear" politician.
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February 8th, 2008, 08:01 PM #7Grand Member
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Re: Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
that's all well and good....but aren't they supposed to stay the hell out of the judicial system?
Glock Pistols.......So simple a Caveman could fix them!
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February 8th, 2008, 08:29 PM #8
Re: Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
Link to the post story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020702113.html
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February 8th, 2008, 08:31 PM #9Super Member
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sarcasm..
I hate this 10 character nonsense.
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February 8th, 2008, 09:45 PM #10
Re: Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban
This is truly excellent news; the pro-control justices will have a much harder time getting away with deliberately misinterpreting the Second Amendment now that a majority of both houses of Congress have declared in no uncertain terms that it protects a fundamental individual right and that infringements thereof should be reviewed with strict judicial scrutiny.
Here's the brief: www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/07-290bsacMembersUSSenate.pdf
(right-click and choose "Save").
Pennsylvania Congressmen who joined the amicus brief:
- Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA, D)
- Senator Arlen Specter (PA, R)
- Representative Jason Altmire (PA-4, D)
- Representative Christopher P. Carney (PA-10, D)
- Representative Charles W. Dent (PA-15, R)
- Representative Philip S. English (PA-3, R)
- Representative James W. Gerlach (PA-6, R)
- Representative T. Timothy Holden (PA-17, D)
- Representative Paul E. Kanjorski (PA-11, D)
- Representative Timothy F. Murphy (PA-18, R)
- Representative John P. Murtha, Jr. (PA-12, D)
- Representative John E. Peterson (PA-5, R)
- Representative Joseph R. Pitts (PA-16, R)
- Representative Todd R. Platts (PA-19, R)
- Representative William F. Shuster (PA-9, R)
Update: Thanks to rwilson452 and kpw for pointing out omissions. I don't know how I missed them; maybe simply human error, or maybe the search functionality of my old version of acroread was broken for this document. Anyhow, I've fixed the above list.Last edited by awkx; February 10th, 2008 at 07:39 AM.
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