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SCOTUS Relic, With a Foot and Several Toes On Banana Peel, Says the 2nd Amendment Should be Repealed

Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 13:49 BFH Uncategorized 34

John Paul Stevens never understood the beauty of our founding document. In my opinion, the guy was/is an embarrassment.

John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment.

This guy lived through a period where kids brought guns to school as part of their activities and no one was shot. This guy doesn’t have the oysters or brains to identify the real cause of shootings. It’s not guns- it’s our diseased culture, infected with the morals, ethics and thinking of leftwing ideology, the one that Stevens embraces.

I, and millions upon millions of people like me, can live in a warehouse stockpiled with guns and ammo, to the roof, and it wouldn’t compel me to take a life. So, attacking the second amendment as the culprit for shootings is ridiculous.

Fisking time:

Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday.

They don’t even TEACH CIVICS in school anymore. Kids were more civically involved decades ago when the pledge of allegiance was recited before classes began. Those kids could have guns in their trucks in the school parking lot and no one feared, no one was a menace.

These demonstrations demand our respect.

Why? Mob rule? I can get a bigger mob. Trust me.

They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.

We had legislation in place that would have stopped this school shooting, but leftwing policy prevented it. Cruz was never put on the proper radar because he was a minority, and leftists, like yourself, thought it best to not pad the rolls of negativity with more minorities because “it’s hurtful,” and too truthful.

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

Now that you are virtually dead you seem more concerned with sneezing and fracturing a hip than whether I can protect my family from a gang of thugs kicking in my door with knives and baseball bats.

Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

It is????  What if a president and his goons get together and ram legislation down the throats of all citizens and have a few relics in robes give it an arthritic and bony thumbs up? Should we have protections against that sort of tyranny, or could that never happen? A knock on the door by a tyrannical government is absurd? Can I have that in writing? Perhaps on parchment written in a quill pen.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”

And that was the slippery slop slope and the impetus for you to declare in 2018 that the entire amendment can, and must, go.

During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

No. A gaggle of clowns like you and Burger would be the greatest fraud by a special interest group if you got together and stripped U.S. citizens of the right to defend themselves.  It’s YOU we need protection from.

In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.

Of course you were.

That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power. Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.

It’s not the NRA that is stymying legislative debate. It is we the people (ring a bell, dumdum?), you know, a civically minded group of people that dwarfs the amount of people who demonstrated in DC, the group that you said “demanded respect” because they represented the broad public support. Yet, when people join the NRA by the millions you are unfazed.

That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform. It would eliminate the only legal rule that protects sellers of firearms in the United States — unlike every other market in the world. It would make our schoolchildren safer than they have been since 2008 and honor the memories of the many, indeed far too many, victims of recent gun violence.

You have data supporting this?

 

 

34 Comments on SCOTUS Relic, With a Foot and Several Toes On Banana Peel, Says the 2nd Amendment Should be Repealed

  4. So, what he is saying is he will have to recuse himself on any future 2 amendment cases that should find their way into the SCOTUS.

    My guess is he knows he will be dead before that happens so what the heck.

    I thought it crude it hear reports of libtards celebrating the news of Reagan’s death. I must confess I will be tempted to open a bottle of bubbly when news comes of this American hater’s death. 100% will do if he dies while Trump is calling the shots.

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  6. the second amendment protects the first amendment which allows him the right to criticize the second amendment.

    he should be careful what he wishes it might come true.

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  7. He’s just an old man who knows he’s coming to an end and is desperate to once again to be relevant. His Wiki was interesting in that Nixon and Ford nominated and appointed him respectively because he was a Republican and considered a moderate conservative but once he was seated began to turn left/progressive. It’s interesting to note that Nixon also nominated Warren Burger thinking he was conservative and instead was left/progressive who (and seven others) performed magical legal stunting to conclude that abortion was covered under the right to privacy of the Constitution (Roe vs Wade).

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  8. Just like ’68, man.

    When all those protesters showed up in Chicago in buses paid for by a Hungarian billionaire, lionized by every news outlet, and given the week off and extra credit by their teachers to attend – and punishment if they didn’t. Because engagement.

    His job as a Justice was to read the goddamn law and apply it.

    Not wish it was different, not grab his eraser to delete the parts he feels didn’t age well, not using his internal, uncalibrated “civic engagement meter” to decide what civil rights he would selectively enforce.

    Look no further as to what is wrong with our courts. He’s two geritols and a cocktail away from farting in a sitz bath with Stephen Colbert.

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  9. The Second Amendment confers no right whatsoever; it merely affirms a right. Repealing it changes nothing, because that right will still exist. What repealing it WOULD do, however,
    is lead government to think that it could do whatever it wanted when it came to disarming
    law-abiding Americans. And I’m afraid that is a road that would be best not taken.

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  10. This guy is going to get a beat down, you aren’t supposed to tell everyone what you really want to do. I saw some panicked libs were throwing him under the bus and going back to attacking the NRA for not allowing good gun laws.

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  12. John Paul Stevens was not content to remain silent and be thought a fool, he decided to open his mouth and remove any doubt anybody ever had. He is a blooming idiot, and most probably going down for the third time!

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  13. He doesn’t know it but he is writing the script for every Republican campaign ad this November.

    Supreme Court Judge just wants to “do away” with the 2nd Amendment.

    If Republicans don’t make an ad out of that editorial, they deserve to lose.

    My fault would be to believe Republicans actually want to win.

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  14. I think he’s an ignorant old fool and I don’t care for his opinion. It shows you had no business ever being on the Supreme Court because he doesn’t understand the Constitution or rather cares less about the Constitution. Black robes don’t get to change the Constitution, although so many of them have tried or cried they couldn’t.
    The 2nd amendment can be done away with, but not by black robes, 2/3 of the Senate and House must agree and then 3/4 of the states must ratify. Let them try to ever do that and you would see the tar and pitchforks come out.

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  16. In our mythology, Zombies are our warning against humans who did not benefit from the last human evolution. They are not blessed with nobility of thought, Love of others, a desire to build something for the future. Known now as Democrats or Progressives, they live and function only for the Self, power over others, hateful bigotry and a lack of humor when it is not tearing someone down. The attack on our Constitution for being outdated, for the 2nd amendment referring only to musketry, for being written by old white men, etc etc…it is all done by the Left for one purpose only and that is to remove their obstacles to Power and thereby create a world as sterile and vile as is their miserable self loathing lives…I need to copy the article so that I recognize that I am not alone in understanding the Left and its atheistic and irreligious choice of Islam as the equivalent of Christian and Western thought. Leftist cannot think in higher levels as they always come back from the effort with Nihilism and Communism..

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  17. “In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.””

    And in 1896, the Supreme Court held in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was Constitutional. So what’s your point, Justice Stevens?

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  18. “In my opinion, the guy was/is an embarrassment.”
    In our lifetime, your evaluation applies to the majority of justices.
    –(RIP Justice Scalia, may your murderers be ground away in Hell until the end of Time).

    Most Americans have weapons and understand their rights. Stevens’ opinion is bupkis, and the Supreme Court, after Obamacare and other pronouncements, has become irrelevant and obsolete. Most US lawyers are parasites begging extermination; our legal system is non-functioning.

    The fraying thread holding us from internecine war is almost gone. And it was done by the hands of those who have trashed JUSTICE. US Law Schools might as well be teaching astrology or Mixology. Molon Lave.

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  19. “Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple…”

    Uh, ya might want to check the constitution you hate so much and review the process for amending. Dumbass.

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  22. I am sure Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and a few of current ones, have the same opinion. I thanks God every day that Trump won and we have been given a respite from these anti-Americans.

    If anybody thinks they need to stay home from the 2018 midterm elections because you are pissed at Congress and Trump, let this be a warning. The battle to save the Republic will be won in the Republican primaries.

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  23. As long as this country is governed by the United States Constitution, there are two things that will never happen: Repeal of the Second Amendment and elimination of the Electoral College. Our Founding Fathers created a Republic, not a Democracy. The Supreme Court cannot amend the Constitution. The President cannot eliminate the Second Amendment by executive action. The Senate and House of Representatives cannot amend the Constitution without the majority of the fifty states ratifying their votes. If anyone wants to try doing it according to the Constitution, I will welcome that debate. Mr. Soros, throw your millions into funding that legal effort. Mr. Bloomberg, finance that constitutional method of repealing the Second Amendment. And, Hoggboy read the Constitution and show us that you comprehend it.

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  26. JPS is not infallible nor is he correct, never was.
    “…..In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia…..”

    Sawed off (short barreled) shotguns and rifles as well as fully automatic weapons (machine guns) are NOT “prohibited”. Congress back then knew that “prohibiting” was out of bounds.
    The “destructive devices” and such items as short barreled weapons are quite legal to posess if one applies for posession (finger printed, etc.) and then pays a Federal Tax.

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  28. I think the same progressive resident that:
    1 Created the EPA
    2. Kicked free China off the Security council in favor of Red China
    3. Nationalized America’s economy with The Cost of Living Council (First thing Jerry did as President was destroy this Marxist set of laws!)

    also put John on the Supreme court.

    The GOP is not, and with a few years exception, never has been CONSERVATIVE. Just a different kind of left. Or “An Echo…”.

  30. I made an attempt at humor here but it has disappeared…

    Google / search “Bob Hope Zombie Clip” and it explains what is going on in less than a minute.

    I even said I was attaching the link for Bob, but apparently no more links…

    This should be banal enough to remain I hope, for Bob…

    So I post this and the one above reappears???
    Puters, I’ll never understand any of it…

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  34. Repeal isn’t necessary.
    The 2nd has already been castrated and eviscerated.

    How many of us apply for “permits” to buy or carry?
    How many of us pay for “background checks” to “allow” us to purchase?
    Gun ownership without the “approval” of our public “servants” is a crime.

    All the compromise, over the past ~235 years, has been by the defenders of Liberty and Freedom, never by the purveyors of Oppression and Tyranny.

    izlamo delenda est …

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