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Supreme Court upholds right to own guns

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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court’s ruling that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting was the opening shot in what will be a long legal and legislative battle over exactly how strictly cities and states can regulate firearms, advocates and elected officials said Thursday.

The court’s 5-4 ruling, its first ever addressing the core ambiguity of the Second Amendment, upheld an appeals court ruling that struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns.

The decision went further than even the Bush administration had sought, but it probably leaves most firearms laws intact. It also struck down Washington’s requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, but it left intact the licensing of guns, and it upheld longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill.



Did anyone else even know this was going on?

I'm honestly surprised they ruled in favor of citizens having guns but a 5-4 vote is pretty close.


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Good ruling, I'd say.


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Whoever holds a past criminal record gets no gun permits. I'll go with that...


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Yeah, DC was pretty much asking for trouble when it enacted such strict gun laws.

I don't know why it's so important for people to carry guns around in DC though. Or anywhere for that matter.


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I don't know why it's so important for people to carry guns around in DC though. Or anywhere for that matter.


It's for bustin' caps, yo!


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I don't know why it's so important for people to carry guns around in DC though.


You've never been to DC, have you?


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You've never been to DC, have you?
3 times, actually.

Places with loose gun control laws make me feel less safe, not more safe.


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The only people who should have guns are cops and soldiers.


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Did anyone else even know this was going on?

I'm honestly surprised they ruled in favor of citizens having guns but a 5-4 vote is pretty close.


What good are guns, as a defense against a Coup, a dictatorship, when the military's got nukes, multimillion dollar airplanes, etc?

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3 times, actually.

Places with loose gun control laws make me feel less safe, not more safe.



Me too, that's why I prefer bullet proof cars, with solid-anti ballistic metallic coated plates instead of windows, and the ability to fire... as well as emp device firing ability(fries computers as well as cellphones and other communication devices, IIRC).

Though I don't have such cars... yet.

The thing is the carrying of guns is BS, it might in theory make a criminal think twice about robbing some place(not some person, as a gun to the back means he has the advantage, any sudden moves he shoots), it does nothing for the angry suicidal man that wants to take out as many as he can before shooting himself in the head.

A great scientist and writer once said that not having a gun was the only thing that kept him from killing himself.


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The thing is the carrying of guns is BS, it might in theory make a criminal think twice about robbing some place(not some person, as a gun to the back means he has the advantage, any sudden moves he shoots), it does nothing for the angry suicidal man that wants to take out as many as he can before shooting himself in the head.

A great scientist and writer once said that not having a gun was the only thing that kept him from killing himself.


Trust me, just like narcotics, if someone wants to get to something bad enough, they will find it.

And what's the scientist saying that got to do with anything? He could have gotten his penis bit off by a dog after seeing his wife in an orgy with his preacher. You don't need a gun to commit suicide. Water can kill you: fill up the bath tub and go for it! He's just a pussy. He didn't want to die; just wanted some sap like you to think it was some deep shit to say.


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Trust me, just like narcotics, if someone wants to get to something bad enough, they will find it.

And what's the scientist saying that got to do with anything? He could have gotten his penis bit off by a dog after seeing his wife in an orgy with his preacher. You don't need a gun to commit suicide. Water can kill you: fill up the bath tub and go for it! He's just a pussy. He didn't want to die; just wanted some sap like you to think it was some deep shit to say.


The rich will always be able to hire guns to kill and kill you if you mess with them... the gun is but an illusion of safety. Most paid assassins die within a few months in their line of work, and there is no way to link them to you with a cash transaction... the dead don't speak.


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Most paid assassins die within a few months in their line of work, and there is no way to link them to you with a cash transaction... the dead don't speak.


there is no way you could know that to be true


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The rich will always be able to hire guns to kill and kill you if you mess with them... the gun is but an illusion of safety. Most paid assassins die within a few months in their line of work, and there is no way to link them to you with a cash transaction... the dead don't speak.


We are talking about the average person, not some guy with secrets to destroy the world.

Drugs got into the African American community in the mid 20th century and suddenly were getting sold in mass even in cities nowhere near a coast... yeah, I mean there's no way if it were illegal it could EVER reach us normal people.


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And what's the scientist saying that got to do with anything? He could have gotten his penis bit off by a dog after seeing his wife in an orgy with his preacher. You don't need a gun to commit suicide. Water can kill you: fill up the bath tub and go for it! He's just a pussy. He didn't want to die; just wanted some sap like you to think it was some deep shit to say.


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Most paid assassins die within a few months in their line of work, and there is no way to link them to you with a cash transaction... the dead don't speak.


That is absolutely and utterly false. Suicide bombers certainly don't last long. Assasins highered to work for organized crime? Dude, they last a very long time.


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Damn that George Bush for appointing a conservative Justice to the court and helping uphold the Constitution...DAMN HIM TO HELL!


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Drugs got into the African American community in the mid 20th century and suddenly were getting sold in mass even in cities nowhere near a coast... yeah, I mean there's no way if it were illegal it could EVER reach us normal people.


you know, because it is harder for me to buy pot than it is to buy liquor


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there is no way you could know that to be true


That's what journalists|reporters have said in the news around here.

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That is absolutely and utterly false. Suicide bombers certainly don't last long. Assasins highered to work for organized crime? Dude, they last a very long time.


Not according to interviewed police officers, only the higher ups in the mob have security and prosperity, at least for a slightly longer period of time than the small fries.


The highered guns go after drug lords and their spots and are always in risk of betrayal or death due to vengeance|retribution. They do take cash for other unrelated jobs though, you just need the cash and a target.


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you know, because it is harder for me to buy pot than it is to buy liquor


If you have lived in the broken neighborhoods, everyone knows where the dope house is. It's the same as going to a liquor store.

You should see the suburban kids come to "the hood." They'll buy a dime bag for $50 +. It's funny laughing


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