Time to Bust Some Panic Myths

[Bubba613]

Yes, because do you want to deal with the risk of losing your senate seat for a bill, only to have it vetoed?

And Pres Bush repeatedly said he would sign an AWB re-authorization.
How many times do we have to make this argument?

 

[JImbothefiveth]

I'm not entirely convinced he would have signed such a bill. (And I didn't vote for him during 2000 or 2004.)

 

[rhoggman]

Force a registration of weapons:

"The U.S. Supreme Court broadly and unequivocally held that requiring licensing or registration of any constitutional right is itself unconstitutional. --Follett vs. Town of McCormick, S.C., 321 U.S. 573 [1944]"

I guess there are many states in violation of this now. A lot of good it does us in the present. Why do you feel it will protest us in the future?

 

[Pushrod]

I guess there are many states in violation of this now. A lot of good it does us in the present. Why do you feel it will protest us in the future?

The Second Amendment has not been incorporated yet, so the States do not have to be ruled by it. I think there are a couple of cases working that could possibly see incorporation of the amendment by the end of the year if we are lucky.

 

[chuckusaret]

Force a registration of weapons:

"The U.S. Supreme Court broadly and unequivocally held that requiring licensing or registration of any constitutional right is itself unconstitutional. --Follett vs. Town of McCormick, S.C., 321 U.S. 573 [1944]"

I do believe all this will change when Obama Bin Biden appoints a few anti gun supreme court judges.

 

[everallm]

Quote:
Force a registration of weapons:

"The U.S. Supreme Court broadly and unequivocally held that requiring licensing or registration of any constitutional right is itself unconstitutional. --Follett vs. Town of McCormick, S.C., 321 U.S. 573 [1944]"


I do believe all this will change when Obama Bin Biden appoints a few anti gun supreme court judges.


Actually you're 100% turned around on this.

1. Currently 2A is NOT incorporated against the states therefore it is not legally a "constitutional right" and as such licencing and registration cannot be held to be unconstitutional.

2. Registration and incorporation are two of the core elements under challenge in both Chicago and California (Nordyke is not directly about registration but incorporation, 9th and 14th amendments)

As for the president appointing SC justices, look at the health and makeup of the SC, the only likely ones to go are firmly in the "liberal" wing and so what is they are replaced like for like, no effective change.