Everyone can relax now cause according to this mornings paper a guns rights bill is going before the US Supreme Court. Now lets all wait and see what that have to say.

Strike down the gun ban: Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Scalia

Maintain the ban: Ginsburg, Souter, Breyer and Stevens

Unknown: Kennedy

And you understood - mission accomplished.



I agree with your predictions. I give Kennedy a 60% chance to side with the conservatives on this issue. He will want to do the "right" thing on this historic vote.

Yup i understood before your little rant there bud. What i don't get is that people seem to think that this "right" is just carte blanche, that nothing can be put in place to temper the rules. I'm all for gun rights, don't get me wrong, i just find it funny how upset everyone is getting about this rather than illegal wiretapping and spying on Americans. Funny we have more posts about this then we do about illegal wiretapping and the like. So you allow your rights there to be taken away and you'll bable on about having to be able to carry a gun to a park???

Not many people treat the U.S. Constitution with the respect it deserves. It is the blueprint by which government works on behalf of the people to provide protection of two important American concepts: Freedom and Property Rights. Included in the freedom category is the right to self-protection, and the right to protect ones' property.

Anything which "tempers the rules" must be vetted to first determine if it will limit personal freedom or property rights. If it does, dump the idea.

Both anti-gun laws and laws that allow government snooping into the personal affairs of law abiding citizens (who have done nothing wrong) literally trample upon the freedoms that the U.S Constitution mandates that government protect.

All these efforts (and others), promoted by the well-intentioned (and those promoted by the not so well-intentioned) must be vigorously fought, or we will lose all freedom and everyone will eventually work and live at the pleasure of the government .... which was why our Constitution was designed so simply.

The U.S Constitution is not a "living" document to be changed at the current "whim de jour" of the masses ... unless you want to lose it.