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Maybe, but I will wait to see how he votes the next time a 2a case comes up.

I just don't see it. I've got several friends with small businesses that are really going to be strapped implementing Obamacare.

In my view, what Roberts did was pull the fuse out of one stick of dynamite in a wagon carrying 3 tons of the stuff.

Crafty? maybe, but that's going to be small comfort for my firends bottom line when they start having to pony up or pay the fines on a bad plan that Mr. Roberts helped send their way...

Legal and Just don't always walk hand in hand.

Thus speaks the king of compromise.

Back to the subject at hand,

The undeniable fact of what happened in that court with Obamacare is more than enough reason for us not to want them to get their hands on the 2A in any meaningful way.

Do you guys really trust that court to uphold our freedoms regarding the 2nd amendment when they have cow-towed to this administrations wishes in the past?

Do you believe that there will not be some sort of restrictions placed on gun ownership with the administration breathing down their necks and the media playing up every kid that's been killed with a firearm over the last 100 years?


I guess ya'll have a little more faith in SCOTUS than I do...

It's way above your skill-set,lightweight.

Your ability to think outside a box is on the same sub-par level as your analogy epic fails.

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Heller and McDonald were meaningful ways,imo.

Nice that they did the right thing, but that's no guarantee of future protection IMO.

So New York should just live with the SAFE Act??

Those of us in 10th Circuit should be happy with the latest CCW ruling???

Maybe we should wait until O gets to replace another of the conservative Justices and then bring a case??

This really is the best chance in my lifetime of settling the issue in a favorable manner. Understand that the worst that could happen is an unconstitutional law would stand.

SCOTUS does not make new laws just knocks them down.

Our country's very survival depends on his continued leadership and good judgement. IMO, he's as historically significant as ANY of the founding fathers of this great country....

They make law (not prescribed by the Constitution), every time the Congress doesn't...

Does Roe v. Wade ring any bells?

Also, "Once and for all" and a Court ruling just don't belong in the same sentence....

This is the crux of it. SCOTUS is going to be making some key 2A rulings that are going to shape the landscape forever.

If we are lucky we can have the court as it stands now make them or we can wait until Scalia is replaced by a another Sotomyer and then make the rulings.

Better we get what we can, now, set in decision.

Frankly if the court could invalidate the NYS law and make mention of several of the key issues in the law, and then find a case that applies full faityh and credit to carry. we would have garnered a lot.

The shifting demographics of the country will insure a more liberal court in the future and those same demographics are going to make congress worse as well.

This.

Once the SC really lays out the second all the garbage will be over and we will have our rights.

Are you nuts? Dude, you are spot-on in many respects on here. I don't know if it's blind hatred on your part for Paul or what, but you need to educate yourself.

I was forced to vote for Romney in the last election but on guns alone, between Romney and Paul, it is a no-brainer. I go with objectivity over subjectivity most of the time and if you put Paul's actual record up over Romney's, Paul wins hands-down, just as he would against anybody you put him up against in the House. If you even compare Paul's RECORD to Romney's rhetoric, Paul wins. And IMO a record trumps what somebody says they'll do, most of the time.

Hear-hear. When you stop believing that you have certain inalienable rights and start believing that everything begins and ends with man, you have just admitted that somebody else can take your abilities away with their opinion through a "vote". If my neighbors want my guns they can come and get them.

The farther the world spins the more complicated things get and the more us common folk need lawyers to tell us what other lawyers said when they made the laws they rule us with. It's a very fine line between that and the boot my ancestors managed to pull their necks out from under when they sailed over to Jamestown.

Re: Kagen, just look how she voted in Heller and McDonald and that will give you an idea on what she thinks!

Kagan wasn't on the Supreme Court for Heller. MacDonald is a Circuit Court case she couldn't vote on.

The Voting Rights case is what is on the table now, and if the SCOTUS sends it packing we will be getting to the root of the current problem. we are being denied representative government and having our votes value compromised.

The 2nd Amendment issues are going to get resolved, and we can be thankful our enemies are making so many bad laws so we can have standing in the courts.

Well Roe v Wade was not a law but a decision that states could not ban abortion, in other words Roe v Wade knocked down laws banning abortion. Kind of the same type of thing only we want the states and Feds to stop making laws that ban guns or otherwise restrict our rights under the 2nd.

Don�t see any states banning abortions. That is a good example of �once and for all�. Personally I am not a big fan of abortion but Roe v Wade it is a good example of how SCOTUS works in our government.



Kagen was not on the court for either of those decisions. She replaced Stevens and while I have absolutely no faith she would rule with the conservatives it is at least interesting she would go hunting here in Wyoming with Scalia. Stevens was vehemently anti gun and wrote the dissenting opinions in both the Heller and McDonald cases.

We are better off with Stevens gone.



I think he is referring to the 2010 McDonald v Chicago case.

It would be nice to turn one of theirs though. Oh how I would laugh. Smiling right now just thinking about it. Almost giggling like Anderson Cooper after a little poot.