Piedmont Plinker
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I keep seeing the scene at the end of Ghostbusters where the Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man blows up...
Trust me, you don't WANT to call the Chicago PD, and a lot of people won't.Did he honestly just say not to call the police if your neighbor is shooting at you with an AK-47?
So, now the cops don't have to do their jobs, is that what he's trying to say?
Me too."We think we're such an improved society," he added. "The rest of the world is laughing at us."
Posted by another okie:
The incorporation question was rightly kept for later. It was not at issue in this case. The courts are not supposed to make decisions about issues that are not before them.
And the reason it was not at issue is that the pro-gun folks deliberately sought out a non-state law so that question would not have to be decided. This was a 5-4 decision. If it had required a decision on incorporation, I bet it would have gone the other way. If you ask for too much, sometimes you get nothing.
Remember that Brown v. Board of Education was not the first anti-segregation case. The NAACP and others gradually built up to that.
Posted by Gudis:
I heard on 890 WLS that ISRA and NRA filed suits against Chicago 15 minutes after the ruling was announced.
City officials expressed confidence the city would prevail in any court challenge, asserting, among other things, that the 2nd Amendment as part of the Bill of Rights restricts the federal government and does not apply to state and local governments.
"We've shown time and time again how many children have been killed in their homes by guns," he said. "Parents are away, they get the gun. Parents are away, the child takes the gun, runs out in the street and has an argument, comes back and shoots somebody."
can anybody make since out of this garbage?