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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (18475)12/30/2002 3:52:05 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Who is "we?" You sound like there are more than one of you.

It's one of those common [or at least I thought it was] literary notations to indicate a generalization without identifying specific persons. You might refer to that as "obscure balderdash".

I can sort of understand why a fatcat like Ted Kennedy would argue against the Second Amendment. He after all lost two brothers to the illegal use of illegal firearms. So he has standing.

You have to be shot or a family member shot to have "standing"? Pretty amazing.

The NRA would love to get cases into the Supreme Court, but the founding fathers left too many land mines and the USSC does not appear to have the cajones to go looking for them.

The vast majority of cases that the NRA has brought to court that you think are 2nd amendment challenges, are not. The recent case in Texas is the only one that I've been able to find since 1939 that is a direct 2nd amendment challenge. Every other case that I've seen, or that has been offered as an example by a gun nut has been challenged on a States Rights violation. When the NRA sends out their literature they push 2nd amendment. When they get into Court, it's a States rights violation.

The NRA and Ashcroft have both petitioned the Supreme Court to not hear the Texas case.

jttmab
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