Second Amendment Questioned

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 9, 2006 @05:35AM from the lock-and-load dept.

dheera writes "Attorneys in Washington, DC question the scope of the Second Amendment in the first case in nearly 70 years, citing that the right to bear arms only applies to 'a well regulated militia.' 'We interpret the Second Amendment in military terms,' said Todd Kim, the District's solicitor general."

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Your Rights ONLINE? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-09 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny

What the hell does the second amendment have to do with my rights ONLINE? I'm still allowed to shoot people in games over the internet, regardless of what the handgun rights are here in DC.
1. Re:Your Rights ONLINE? by __aaclcg7560 · 2006-12-09 05:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If the government is going to tax people for their "virtual earnings", taking away their "virtual weapons" is the next step.
2. Re:Your Rights ONLINE? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-09 05:49 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  It should be interpreted more as "Your Rights, Online" I think. The comma makes all the difference.
3. Re:Your Rights ONLINE? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-09 05:53 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Ando: "No, no, save the cheerleader, then save the world."
  
  Hiro: "No, it's an "if, then" statement."
  
  Ando: "How do you know?"
  
  Hiro: "I was the one who said it!"
  
  Ando: "Future you doesn't count as you."
4. Re:Your Rights ONLINE? by toleraen · 2006-12-09 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Remember that hunting outfit in [Texas?] that allowed you to hunt remotely?
  
  There, now I've tied in second ammendment rights to your rights online. You can thank me later. Now, continuing on with the discussion....
5. Re:Your Rights ONLINE? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-09 09:23 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Yeah, I did the same, only replace "WAP" with "wife and "mine" with "the peace of a sunday morning hangover".
  
  good news is, no more hangovers for the next decade or so.
Organized, regulated groups.. by xtal · 2006-12-09 05:44 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm assuming then, the NRA meets that definition nicely. :)

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Excellent! by Reality+Master+101 · 2006-12-09 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

This is a great subject for debate on Slashdot. I look forward to getting this issue settled, once and for all!

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Re:From my cold dead hands by Blkdeath · 2006-12-09 05:57 · Score: 2, Funny

To quote (from memory) a German commander on the Easter front during WWII: "Each of our tanks could beat five of theirs. We kept meeting six."

How many tanks do you and your neighbors own?

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Red Dawn by chia_monkey · 2006-12-09 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Right, because your grand-daddy's rifle is really going to help against tanks and automatic weaponry.

You obviously haven't seen "Red Dawn". Wolverriiiiine!!!!

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Iraq is a good example of this by PIPBoy3000 · 2006-12-09 06:16 · Score: 3, Funny

The US military is the best in the world, but put them in a country where AK-47s, RPGs, and plastique are easy to obtain and that country can effectively harrass them until they leave. Not that I'm advocating widespread RPG ownership in our country, but it would certainly make those Canadians think twice before invading us.
Re:From my cold dead hands by that+this+is+not+und · 2006-12-09 06:16 · Score: 2, Funny

If it can't contend with the military, then what is the problem?

You'll kill little children with it.

Can't you think of the children ???
Re:Colonial Militia... by Artifakt · 2006-12-09 06:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Let's see - I'm on the record as qualified (Marksman or better, mostly a damned sight better) with M-16 (-A1 or -A2, either), SAW, M-203 grenade launcher, M72-A2 LAW (with coupler), M-2 and M-60 machine guns, the old M-3 "grease gun", and various .45 or 9 mm pistols. I'm 'familiarized' with a bunch of the more modern anti-tank weapons, machine guns, and a bunch of European equivalents too. Can I have one of each?
(And really I should get a 1/4 share of an M1-A2 Abrams MBT too, as I've qualified in all four seats at various times. We could probably rotate that one, leave it parked in a different guy's driveway each month or something. So does my state need to start issueing driver's liscences for those?)

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Re:From my cold dead hands by mrchaotica · 2006-12-09 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny

[M]any advocates for the Second Amendment don't try to claim that anyone has a right to arms so powerful.

Then they're drunken, deer-hunting idiots. The Second Amendment specifically guarantees the right of the people to rebel against an unjust government, and as such we should have the right to any weapons we want, up to and including artillery and aircraft.

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Re:From my cold dead hands by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-09 07:01 · Score: 1, Funny

> How many tanks do you and your neighbors own?

Do SUV's count?
Re:US DOJ says by jamstar7 · 2006-12-09 09:50 · Score: 2, Funny

And people wonder why one of my fave t-shirts back in the day was one that had the barrel of a handgun pointed at the reader with the words "Come back to Detroit / We missed you the first time" on it.
Wish I knew where that one ran off to...

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Re:If you had studied 1787 Common Law texts: by iamacat · 2006-12-09 20:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Now I'm not saying that guns are responsible for all the shootings

*Cough* Well, actually...