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Gun Control Reform Activism
In reply to the discussion: Committee votes on AWB [View all]hansberrym
(1,571 posts)17. Google "Heller", search the decision for "individual", it is that easy.
So hansberry preaches out the song & dance concoction the nra developed over the past 30 years to sidestep the miller decision, which clearly spoke for a militia interpretation.
"clearly", and yet the Miller court did not even ask whether Mr Miller was a member of any militia or was on duty at the time of his arrest.
The Aymette decsion was focused on the political right to keep and bear arms, and yet that court did not limit the right to keep arms to those in actual service of the state militia, instead they said it was an unqualified right of the citizens. Moreover, a later decision of the Tennessee court did find for an individual right to bear arms for defense of one's home, a right wihich was said to belong to the citizen as such, not as a soldier. There was a darn good reason for Stevens to avoid poking around those state court cases.
http://www.guncite.com/court/state/
Was the NRA around when Bliss was decided? When Aymette was decoided? When Nunn was decided? How can this be?
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First, what you have done in this sub-thread is what you have done all over DU
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#30
What do you think would happen if Democrats *did* lose control of Congress?
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2013
#7
Then AR15's are protected under Miller as they are the semi-automatic version...
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2013
#13
We all have access to the source documents, the game of providing only partial quotes is just silly.
hansberrym
Mar 2013
#31
Funny that your thread has brought a whole passel of "pro gun progressives" attacking...Democrats.
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#14
Maybe not surprising, but dissappointing that the conversation has not moved forward.
hansberrym
Mar 2013
#33
This is not the forum to be expressing "RKBA" (see sig line) views. This one is:
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#34
Thank you to all who voted for the ban. It's no surprise that the wrong votes were from republicans.
In_The_Wind
Mar 2013
#37