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Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
Now.Imperfect writes "In its last day of session, the Supreme Court has definitively clarified the meaning of the Second Amendment. The confusion is whether the Second Amendment allows merely for the existence of a state militia, or the private ownership of guns. This ruling is in response to a case regarding the 32-year-old Washington DC ban on guns." This is one of the most-watched Supreme Court cases in a long time, and Wikipedia's page on the case gives a good overview; the actual text of the decision (PDF) runs to 157 pages, but the holding is summarized in the first three. There are certainly other aspects of the Second Amendment left unaddressed, however, so you can't go straight to the store for a recently made automatic rifle.
Just like to say, for all you whining nanny state liberals that can't tolerate the nature and history of this country; Eat it. Sit there and stew in anger. Precedent has been set. Matters have been decided. You lose. Take your good intentions and cram it in the orifice of your choice.
Those of you who have yet to escape your welfare state ruined urban neighborhoods go buy a gun. The Feinsteins of this world do not yet rule everything.
The average /.r is male, and we are already allowed to bare chests
You must be gay. We heterosexuals dearly and truly wish for the female of the species to bare their chests at every opportunity!
Especially those of us who can't get one of our own.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
A well regulated ("supplied") militia is not strictly necessary to the security of a free state, as the past two centuries of freedom have demonstrated. We have that security, but we have a huge standing army instead of a militia. Though we do have a National Guard of (fairly) well supplied state militias, they have not completely protected that security, nor have they ever successfully protected a state against a tyrannical Federal government, and are unnecessary to protect against the many threats that our standing army protects us from.
Maybe we'd be more free with well supplied militias instead of the standing army that gets us into so much trouble (like driving us into Iraq, and into Vietnam, and into all manner of covert wars between, and squandering budgets on crony contractors...). But we're not backing up the 2nd Amendment by disbanding the Federal military or tearing down the Pentagon.
The 2nd Amendment is wrong. It's one of only two Constitutional instructions that justify themselves with an excuse (the other is copyright, which is also a compromise that's long outlived its usefulness or sanity). It should be repealed and replaced with something more fundamental to actual rights, like the right to bear arms that are necessary, not a blanket decree that arms are necessary. If the arms dealers weren't so powerful throughout our history, we'd already have repealed it, like other rules that conflict with people's lives in the real world.
Unfortunately, we've got the Amendment. Until we do repeal it, we've got to live with the violent, mass murderous consequences.
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make install -not war
I wonder, will Slashdotters be arguing that US Marines have to Mirandize enemy soldiers next?
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you
Yeah, yeah, mod me troll, whatever. Got a mountain of karma to burn, so you fat fucks with the tiny dicks and big compensatory trucks and guns can click your little retaliatory mod buttons all you like.
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You must be gay. We heterosexuals dearly and truly wish for the female of the species to bare their chests at every opportunity!
You know, the only women who actually want to go topless in public are mostly the overweight middle-aged variety whose tits sag to their stomach, (which is equally saggy) because they thought going without a bra was a good idea for one reason or another; these women are in the same demographic as those who refuse to shave their armpits or ape-like legs, you know, as a way demonstrating their unsuppressed feminine nature--or some stupid shit. Let me share some wisdom: there's a reason Venus de Milo and similar visages are classical archetypes of femininity; and doughy middle-aged neanderthal-esqueness just doesn't fit into it.
There are some things which just shouldn't be seen, and I shudder at the thought of having to look (which I would, it's like a train wreck) at droopy boobs all flying around an swingin' with the gait that some of these heifers sport. Not to mention, it's a physical hazard there's a definite need to put leashes on those puppies! In all fairness, I'm not fond of seeing manboobs, beer belly and ass-crack flying all over the place, either. Same exact thing in my mind, I have no gender bias in this issue.
Now, if attractive, physically fit women (or men) want to go topless--you're all welcome to it. However, I still feel it's necessary to to place armed guards at all places where spandex is retailed, with authorization to shoot to kill all fatties who dare waddle over to touch the form fitting fabric.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
Should the country wish to grow up.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
"I think you are a liar. If you didn't care, you wouldn't have responded."
Well, based on your reasoning, I think you're an imbecile.
Is it possible that I don't care one whit about your opinion while similarly being very concerned about shouting down ignorant fools?
Hey look, I just proved you wrong.
"But you did care enough to respond to make some comment."
Yeah, I cared about making sure people knew you were full of shit, your opinion in that case is irrelevant. You fail.
"Or do you generally go around ranting like a lunatic about things you don't care about?"
I do neither, but I do occasionally point out where people are forwarding stupid attempts at arguments, especially when they're obviously wrong and involve my rights.
Like yours.