Comments on: Court adds three new cases http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-adds-three-new-cases/ The Supreme Court of the United States blog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:56:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Terence Colligan http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-adds-three-new-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-14883 Terence Colligan Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:48:14 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/court-adds-three-new-cases/#comment-14883 Has everyone forgotten the Second Amendment was not just added as an afterthought? It was considered almost as important as freedom of speech, which, by the way, is also an individual right. The Founding Fathers made it abundantly clear what the purpose was. All you have to do is read some history. A good place to start would be the Federalist Papers. If, after reading the information available you still believe the Second Amendment only provides for the formation of a National Guard unit or some other function related to an organized militia, your IQ cannot be raised enough to see the truth. Today we have a criminal problem, not a gun problem. It's way easier to pass laws that only affect the law-abiding than to actually go out after dangerous criminals. If congress was really interested in bringing the gun violence down, it would legalize all drugs and treat the addict's condition as a public health menace. The so-called "drug war" is a trillion-dollar boondoggle that only serves to further a huge federal beaurocracy with a lot of highly-paid gun-toting cowboys. We are using 1930's (not a very enlightened era) thinking to solve a 21st Century problem. Where are all the so-called Ninth Amendment rights Americans supposedly have? Has everyone forgotten the Second Amendment was not just added as an afterthought? It was considered almost as important as freedom of speech, which, by the way, is also an individual right. The Founding Fathers made it abundantly clear what the purpose was. All you have to do is read some history. A good place to start would be the Federalist Papers. If, after reading the information available you still believe the Second Amendment only provides for the formation of a National Guard unit or some other function related to an organized militia, your IQ cannot be raised enough to see the truth.

Today we have a criminal problem, not a gun problem. It’s way easier to pass laws that only affect the law-abiding than to actually go out after dangerous criminals. If congress was really interested in bringing the gun violence down, it would legalize all drugs and treat the addict’s condition as a public health menace. The so-called “drug war” is a trillion-dollar boondoggle that only serves to further a huge federal beaurocracy with a lot of highly-paid gun-toting cowboys.

We are using 1930’s (not a very enlightened era) thinking to solve a 21st Century problem. Where are all the so-called Ninth Amendment rights Americans supposedly have?

]]> By: Andrew Oh-Willeke http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-adds-three-new-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-14810 Andrew Oh-Willeke Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:55:00 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/court-adds-three-new-cases/#comment-14810 I wonder if the ruling in <i>Heller</i> on oral argument participation reflects merely a desire not to open the floodgates, or whether it goes further and reflects a sense that the issues relevant to Texas, where incorporation could be at issue, is different from those in D.C., where it is not. I wonder if the ruling in Heller on oral argument participation reflects merely a desire not to open the floodgates, or whether it goes further and reflects a sense that the issues relevant to Texas, where incorporation could be at issue, is different from those in D.C., where it is not.

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