Mark P
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Reged: Jun 21 2005
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Loc: Arizona
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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/
The blog seems to be updated regularly and I'm sure there's live feeds out there.
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Ken (Catskin)
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Reged: Nov 24 2000
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I watched the Oral Arguments on C-Span. Interesting. Sometimes you bristle at our side but there are reasons for what they say I suppose (hope.)
Anyway - the transcript has been posted.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-290.pdf
It's time to wait in suspense until the results are posted in June.
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Mark P
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I'd love to hear a ruling that made it possible to strike the MG ban, but it doesn't seem anyone in the ruling class, on either side, thinks the unwashed masses are worthy of that unless they pledge their servitude to the crown. We shall see.
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Ken (Catskin)
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Not from this case - maybe a future case, who knows. No this one will be a great case to sight while arguing future new cases and a standard to apply to new gun laws that may be proposed, but I don't see it changing *any* existing laws.
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Mark P
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Not from this case - maybe a future case, who knows. No this one will be a great case to sight while arguing future new cases and a standard to apply to new gun laws that may be proposed, but I don't see it changing *any* existing laws.
Exactly. The wording of the ruling will be crafted as such that no matter how it all falls out, there will likely be no opening for a case against the MG ban. The scary part of that is in saving us from ourselves and those evil implements of death and destruction they hand out like candy to their own, they'll likely open something up for more restriction.
A gun is a gun. If an American's right to bear arms is individual and absolute then there is no difference between a pocket knife and a nuclear warhead. We all know that shit isn't going to fly, so even if the ruling comes where the right is individual it will not be absolute. It's how the "reasonable restrictions" are worded that will determine its application to future cases.
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Ken (Catskin)
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If anybody wants to hear the oral arguments, they are here...
http://www.downrange.tv/rkba/dc-v-heller.htm
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