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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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Lol, great.... because there were way too many real, relevant, substantive issues on the table for the upcoming presidential campaign. We totally needed something controversial and benal to distract us all and make sure our politicians don't accidentally address any important issues.
I'm sorry - is my ability to protect myself not important for you. Turns out living in Chicago I and other good citizens are not allowed to own guns to defend ourselves from the assholes who do not pay attention to laws.
Funny how you see the second amendment as a non issue. But giving health care or education tax breaks to illegal aliens is. Hmmmm.
Odd indeed, given how much complaining you have done about the patriotic act violating other constitutional amendments.
You, and the rest of the electorate, need to learn to distinguish between something being a non-issue and something being unimportant. Slavery remaining illegal is muc more important than abortion being legal. But when the president appoints someone to the Supreme Court, talking about their position on slavery is a non-issue, because no matter what it is we're never going to make slavery legal. However, there's a fair chance that Roe V. Wade could be overturned, and so it's a big issue.
Nothing about gun control or the Second Ammendment is going to change in a big , national way any time soon, and this particular case certainly isn't going to change anything. The national government will not do anything to the constitution, the congress will continue to propose, argue about, ammend, and ultimately reject various weak, innefective gun control measures, and the Supreme Court will not offer a definitive reinterpretation of the second ammendment. Various states and cities will continue to have their gun policies fluctuate based on local political trends. All gun control laws will continue to go unenforced, anyone who wants a gun will get one regardless of the local laws, and no one will ever be prosecuted for illegal possesion of a firearm unless the police suspect them of some other crime that they can't prove.
In short, no matter what happens in this case or how the various candidates feel about gun control and the second ammendment, nothing is going to change. On the other hand, there are a huge number of social, political, economical, and military issues at stake in this election on which your choice of candidate actually WILL have a big effect- these are what I call 'real, releavent, substantive issues'. But instead of hearing about these issues, we'll just get to hear the same tired, innefectual, merry-go-round rhetoric about gun control that we've heard every election cycle for the last 40 years.
The supreme court could potentially rule that the standard liberal interpretation of the second amendment is invalid. This would meet your:
'Supreme Court will not offer a definitive reinterpretation of the second ammendment'
That in of itself is a good reason to think this case is a non-issue. Actually come to think of it, many of the people that are happy with the supreme courts decision to take this case are hoping that such an interpretation will be given.
So it turns out that according to you this is a non-issue because you don't think the supreme court will make made a definitive interpretation of the second amendment. Others, again according to your distinction, could possibly see this as an issue given their belief that a definitive interpretation may be handed down.
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