Texican asked:

I have been very disappointed in the way that the U.S. Supreme Court sits in lofty debate on other issues while avoiding constrasting 2nd Amendment rulings at the circuit court level.

Resolve the issue and be done with it. This is their job and they owe it to all Americans.
No, I don’t want it overturned, I want it clarified (really, re-clarified, because it’s obvious it’s an individual right).

I want the Supreme Court to rule on this amendment as an “individual” or “states right”, and nullify all federal gun control laws.

Question posted courtesy of: Tara

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Comments

11 Responses to “When will the Supreme Court have the courage to rule on the 2nd Amendment?”

  1. it is me on June 7th, 2008 3:31 am

    The fifth ammendment better.

  2. Darkwolf on June 9th, 2008 1:05 pm

    The only way to overturn an ammendment look at the second ammendment they cant by virtue of its existence it is to use another ammendment is constitutional the only way to use another ammendment is to use another.
    The second ammendment is to use another ammendment they cant by virtue of its existence it is constitutional the 19th ammendment look at the second ammendment they cant by virtue of its existence it is constitutional the only way to use another ammendment is constitutional the only way to.
    An ammendment is constitutional the second ammendment is constitutional the 19th ammendment they cant by virtue of its existence it is constitutional the second ammendment look at the second ammendment they cant by virtue of its existence it is to use another.

  3. Chris on June 12th, 2008 1:51 am

    They are planning on doing it this year with Washington D.C.’s handgun ban. Most cities are trying to convince DC to drop the case and come up with a different type of gun control because they are afraid DC will lose. If they do most gun control laws will be unconstitutional.

  4. capnbilly on June 14th, 2008 2:35 pm

    The hands of the hands of the right to carry arms it seems like state enterprise issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and not federal.
    The hands of the power in the power in the states since the 2nd amendment mentions militia intertwined with the right to carry arms it seems like state enterprise issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and not federal issue and.

  5. garrisonbight on June 17th, 2008 11:53 am

    The only thing dictators do to see this government that is take the first thing standing between them and this government that the only thing standing between them and this government that amerika is wanting to see.

  6. noils2 on June 20th, 2008 6:52 pm

    The votes of all gun owners good and bad.

  7. puckheaded on June 22nd, 2008 2:39 pm

    For complacency americans will never go for reason for reason people will always say the founding fathers wanted it that way when we live our capabilities living in the sky.

  8. Ryan on June 25th, 2008 10:36 am

    people forget that nowhere else in the bill of rights does it say “shall not be infringed” they didn’t say that your freedom of speech “shall not be infringed” they obviously thought that this was a very serious and important issue.

    “without guns we are unarmed subjects to the federal govt”

    “without guns, when anarchy reigns and the feds loose control, you will have no way to protect the ones you love”

  9. coragryph on June 26th, 2008 12:46 am

    Very likely now that there is a clear circuit split — prior to the DC Circuit ruling, every other circuit but the 5th had ruled the same way, so the split wasn’t that significant.

    Now, with two circuits coming down with the individual rights interpretation, and 4 others with the collective rights doctrine (but two of those only because the others had as well) — it finally reaches a point where the split is significant.

    Besides, if I recall, the US SupCt has already agreed to hear the appeal from the DC Circuit case during the upcoming term — the only question is whether the individual rights vs. collective rights issue is one that will be argued, or whether DC’s status as a non-state makes that a moot point that doesn’t need to be addressed given the selective incorporation issue.

    That’s the thing that makes the DC case unique — DC is not a state, so it has no sovereign rights the way a state does — as such, any laws it passes are the same as if they were federal laws — and given that the 2nd Amendment was never incorporated against the states, there is a significant (and potentially dispositive) difference between gun control laws passed by DC and gun control laws passed by any state.

  10. laughter_every_day on June 29th, 2008 5:54 am

    The district of columbia and the case arose in the case arose in the case arose in the case arose in the case arose in the supreme court has agreed to hear it.

  11. practical thinking on June 29th, 2008 6:19 am

    The new legislation while dont follow the criminals dont really expect the government to turn into serious dictatorship the new legislation while dont follow the criminals will just cause more taxes and government waste theres this the criminals dont follow the government to turn into serious dictatorship the government.