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On my to buy list An unregistered one, so that if a hurricane strikes here I can use it on the people who are coming to get the ones they know I own.

Want to cry I haven't been to this board in over two years because... I don't really know, except I got busy with law school and having a baby and stuff... and it was kind of nice to live in ignorant bliss, thinking that my guns were perfectly safe in my bedside table. Back to reality I...

Gosh that's aweful - I'm glad no one was hurt. Good thoughts being sent to you, your family and your son's friends.

How sad. There's not nearly enough information here to draw ANY conclusions, except that this is sad. There are many possibilities - the parents are negligent for giving guns to kid who wasn't mature/stable/safety-conscious enough to have them, or this was a kid in a gun-friendly household who...

labgrade, I think it, if nothing else, it would be common curtesy to read all the posts in a thread before going around calling people stupid. I would then point out that YOU are the one that has no idea what you're talking about - but then again, we've been through all this and I'm pretty...

Sheesh, how many times do I have to say it - that is not NOT NOT NOT "my" argument... that is the argument the Supreme Court made and has continually affirmed! I do not NOT NOT NOT agree with it AT ALL. :banghead: That lowly judge in Denver, however, is bound by those Supreme Court...

Thank you cuchulainn - your peacemaking skills are admirable (want a job in Iraq? ha ha). You're right - that is how I would define interpret. I would also add, lest we forget, that (as you actually pointed out earlier re interpretation of the word "people") the courts' interpretations...

I'm not asserting any superiority whatsoever. I am just stating my belief that you and Quantus are wrong - the courts DO have a legal right to interpret the law. "Putting me in my place" by pointing out that I'm acting inappropriately and by pointing out my typos is arrogance that I don't...

I can appreciate that, org :) What I am NOT justifying is an attitute of arrogance, or an idea that I am somehow more educated or worth listening to than other people - because I don't believe that, and I'm sorry if I came across that way. There's people on this board I respect infinately...

And YOU get an A++ for tact, Mr. buzz_knox :rolleyes: My "arrogance" is actually just irritation that some people believe that interpretation of laws by the courts is "illegal." Quantus was just ranting, and wrong. I don't give a crap how educated anyone is, and I do NOT consider myself...

How bout law school? :rolleyes: I just thought Quantus could benefit from some basic civics - his teacher was OBVIOUSLY bad because he has no idea how our government works. Of course, as long as he sits in his house, clutching his copy of the Constition and never ventures into the real world...

quartus, you're obviously in over your head - go back to civics class before you get too bent out of shape. :rolleyes:

cuchulainn, the court has rejected efforts to incorporate the second amendment. i will find cases later (lunch break almost up!) and post them. no, but it limits what lower courts (like this one) can decide, and in that respect the decisions act as laws... which does not, obviously, mean...

Quartus - the courts are not illegally taking any powers - we have a common law system, which means that part of our laws come from the legislature and part of our laws come from the courts. You may (justifiably) disagree with how the courts have ruled on some matters, but that doesn't change...

I have to get this off my chest because it irritates me... people cannot assume that by reading a law they get to interpret it, or even assume that it means what it says. Reading the constitutions or statutes or whatever is only half of what will tell you the REAL law - the other half is...

Quartus, it doesn't matter... The US Constitution only applies to FEDERAL powers - ie, restrictions on congress re what laws they can pass. What matters then is how the courts have interpreted the Constitution - that is what common law is all about. The 14th Amendment means that some parts of...

cyanide + hydrochloric acid -> mix it all up in a bottle, throw it at the guy and run like crazy :uhoh: or just run like crazy

Quartus, I'm running waaay late this morning, but quickly.... the 2nd Amendment only applies to congress' ability to pass federal laws that infringe on RKBA, it does NOT apply to your individual right. Why do the other amendments in the Bill of Rights apply to individual rights? Because of the...

AAK AAK... too late to do more than a skimming of the article and posts that followed (sorry)... but all I can say is that as soon as people start name-calling and throwing around the word "hate," I pretty much just assume they must not have a good argument and tune out. Occassionally...

~~W~E~L~C~O~M~E~~ (me, waving my arms wildly and ashamed of being so late to the welcoming party!) This is a great place - I came over here after the old (Firing Line) forum closed, and think this is probably the best place to hang out on the web! I post in spurts (lots for a few days then...