Academics for the Second Amendment amicus brief filed.

[F4GIB]

You can retrieve it from here:

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-con...07-290_amicus_academicsforsecondamendment.pdf

 

[Unisaw]

IANAL, but that brief seems to be a devastating and compelling attack on those who seek to rewrite the history of the Second Amendment. Well done.

 

[green-grizzly]

I counted 34 briefs in support of respondent.
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/amicus-briefs-for-heller-available-in-guns-case/

 

[ilbob]

I counted 34 briefs in support of respondent.

I thought someone had said there was a limit of 20 for each side.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

No, I caught a speech by Bob Levy tonight and I think he mentioned that pro-2A side had some 42 amici briefs.

 

[Kharn]

I kinda feel bad for those SCOTUS clerks, but then they're getting to work on a case that'll be as famous as Rowe v Wade when it comes down...

Kharn

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

I kinda feel bad for those SCOTUS clerks, but then they're getting to work on a case that'll be as famous as Rowe v Wade when it comes down...

Kharn

Do you think that will be true?

 

[baz]

Do you think that will be true?

My take is that it will be as "famous" as Roe v. Wade, but only time will tell if it will be as significant. It will certainly be "famous" -- as in well known. The number of briefs is one indication of just how important this issue is to a lot of people. Even more impressive to me, is the wide range of perspectives, and subjects, covered by the briefs. Most of them put forth a significantly distinct perspective, showing that this is an issue with a lot of different ramifications.

When all the briefs are in, I hope someone does a synopsis of them all, to illustrate just how varied and extensive support is for the importance of the 2nd Amendment.

 

[F4GIB]

Good quote.

In the 1780s the individual right to have personal arms was simply not questioned by anyone, anywhere. As cultural historians observe, such a situation is commonplace: “the most elemental and important facts about a society are those that are seldom debated and generally regarded as settled.” The Pennsylvania Minority, Massachusetts minority, and New Hampshire proposals as well as Virginia's (and North Carolina's) have to be understood against this background. The right existed, so any "bill of rights" however worded was understood to preserve that personal right. Had anyone publicly suggested otherwise, all hell would have broken loose. And it did not.

 

[ilbob]

Now 47 briefs, if I counted correctly.

I liked the Rutherford Institute brief.

The Framers of the Constitution enacted the Bill of Rights in the aftermath of the War of Independence, fought as a consequence of the tyranny of the British Empire. The American colonists understood very well what it meant to live under an oppressive governmental regime. To them, tyranny was more than a word. It was a condition of life in a state of martial law. While the threat of tyranny that led to the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights may not yet be of the magnitude it was in 1776, as Judge Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit reminds us, “However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F. 3d 567, 570
(9th Cir. 2003).

The Militarization Of Police Forces Represents A Modern-Day Standing Army

As Judge Kozinski noted in Silveira, “… tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

I am very pleased to see that the amici briefs are unafraid to explore the core purpose of the second amendment, no doubt to the terror of statists everywhere.

 

[K-Romulus]

Please folks, donate to the A2A; the three main brief writers (David Hardy, Prof. Joe Olson, and Clayton Cramer) need some help recouping their out of pocket costs from getting the brief filed.

Info on the filing from David Hardy's blog: http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/academics_for_2_1.php#comments

Donate with Paypal or CC through: http://academicssecondamendment.blogspot.com/

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Academics for the Second Amendment
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