Recent content by BrooksD

"I do not agree with the Heller decision to the extent that it says that the right to bear arms is an individual right" I don't agree with Roe v Wade. It's still the law until it's overturned or vacated. "That is why I am in favor of repealing the second amendment and then enacting statutory...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-omalley-gun-package-20130114,0,3399888.story Things are looking very grim here in the peoples republik of Maryland. Our governor has national ambitions and is looking to one up Cuomo when it comes to violating the 2nd Amendment. If most of this...

It would help to know what angle she is taking in her anti stance. Is she a "ban all firearms" type? Or is she "ban scary looking black rifles because the founders couldn't have envisioned them" type? Is magazine size her issue? Does she get hung up on the "militia clause"? Something else...

The short answer is that litigation takes time and it's going to take a while to undo the damage of the past 100 years. Many state gun laws are in the process of being challenged as a direct result of Heller and McDonald. My main point was directed to the silly militia argument that we...

Folks, we can stop fretting about the wording of the 2nd Amendment. The Supreme Court has already interpreted the right in our favor definitively in Heller. The holding reads: "The Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia...

When you really think about it, its kinda scary that these lists exist at all.

Worse than that, the don't even appear to be familiar with the more recent McDonald v. Chicago where the 2nd got incorporated to the states. That decision means that a state can no longer violate the 2nd Amendment, just like the feds can (supposedly) not violate it. Thanks to McDonald, this...

Its not FOX. The piece orginially appeared in the Des Moines Register a few days ago. Fox is just publishing an opinion piece about the original opinion piece.

Yes, the Supreme Court is in our favor...for now. A couple more elections go the way they have recently and you are going to see guys like Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas replaced by the likes of Sotomayer and Kagan. Once that happens, you won't see a pro-2nd Amendment decision for decades and the...

Good post. Realistic, tangible numbers that could have been extrapolated out (~2.5 to 3 billion for the nation) and contrasted/compared with what the US gives as a nation in foreign aid (around 50 billion in all) to places like Pakistan that hate us anyway. Too bad the NRA didn't take that...

I was happy with what Wayne said. I was hoping the organization wasn't going throw black rifle owners under the bus and they didn't. Also in the plus column, I guess Geraldo Rivera will be shredding his NRA membership card as he proclaimed he would do on Fox and Friends this morning if the...

You counter it the same way Scalia did in Heller: "Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment . We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects...