Supreme Court to back right to bear arms

[Sister Fracas 5]

MYTH: Keeping guns in the home increases personal protection.

TRUTH: Obviously, self defense is not a good argument against gun control since those who own firearms are actually more likely to be victims of homicide. Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that keeping a gun in the home increases the risk of both suicide and homicide. Keeping a gun in the home makes it 2.7 times more likely that someone will be a victim of homicide in your home (in almost all cases the victim is either related to or intimately acquainted with the murderer) (source) and 4.8 times more likely that someone will commit suicide (source). Guns make it more likely that a suicide attempt will be successful than if other means were used such as sleeping pills.

Who are you scared off? We can always go back to the wild west days, and we just all carry around guns, and if someone makes you mad, just shoot them.

We likes our guns in "Merica...yee-haw!

[Empress of Groovy 373]

If they ban the right to bear arms, the arms-bearing citizens should form a militia and overthrow the government.

Don't forget about the importance of tanks.

Who's going to use the tanks? The military? They can't use them against civilians, Posse Comitatus and all.

I didn't know you were such an idealist, Ma Wilson!

[almaty 19]

Go look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There were plenty of military personnel policing New Orleans.

Those were National Guard troops that are under the control of the State Governor. They are not federalo govt troops.

correct as always senor fox...i was in a student riot and the Guard was called out on us....in fact, one fo my friends from high school was in the Guard and i ran into him near Faner Hall.. we looked at one another, and i hit him with a chunk of brick that i was carrying..got tear gas for that..and i bought him a beer a couple weeks later...

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

Who are you scared off? We can always go back to the wild west days, and we just all carry around guns, and if someone makes you mad, just shoot them.

more wild ideas from another gun grabber.

[rhymeswithcandi 0]

This case is a bit ironic. Conservatives dont like activists on the supreme court. But in order to find the Washington DC law unconstitutional based on the second amendment, they have to be activists.

No, they would have to be activists to decide that they could pass a law outlawing guns. You have it backwards. The constitution clearly states that we have the right to bear arms.

You do understand that the "right to bear arms" does have limits, right? A bomb for every baby, I guess.

Every right has limits yes. For example, a convicted felon cannot bear arms etc. But the right to bear arms is a right. The second amendment is a right just like the nineteenth amendment! Limiting an American's right to bear arms is no different than putting limits on a woman's right to vote. Would you argue that the 19th amendments is a limited right too?

This case is about the gun ban in DC which is unconstitutional!

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

This case is a bit ironic. Conservatives dont like activists on the supreme court. But in order to find the Washington DC law unconstitutional based on the second amendment, they have to be activists.

No, they would have to be activists to decide that they could pass a law outlawing guns. You have it backwards. The constitution clearly states that we have the right to bear arms.

You do understand that the "right to bear arms" does have limits, right? A bomb for every baby, I guess.

Every right has limits yes. For example, a convicted felon cannot bear arms etc. But the right to bear arms is a right. The second amendment is a right just like the nineteenth amendment! Limiting an American's right to bear arms is no different than putting limits on a woman's right to vote. Would you argue that the 19th amendments is a limited right too?

This case is about the gun ban in DC which is unconstitutional!

So wouldn't the ban on automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles be considered unconstitutional?

I, personally, don't think the ban is unconstitutional. It doesn't ban all weapons, just handguns, and I have yet to get one decent reason why handguns should be legal.

[rhymeswithcandi 0]

MYTH: Keeping guns in the home increases personal protection.

TRUTH: Obviously, self defense is not a good argument against gun control since those who own firearms are actually more likely to be victims of homicide. Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that keeping a gun in the home increases the risk of both suicide and homicide. Keeping a gun in the home makes it 2.7 times more likely that someone will be a victim of homicide in your home (in almost all cases the victim is either related to or intimately acquainted with the murderer) (source) and 4.8 times more likely that someone will commit suicide (source). Guns make it more likely that a suicide attempt will be successful than if other means were used such as sleeping pills.

Who are you scared off? We can always go back to the wild west days, and we just all carry around guns, and if someone makes you mad, just shoot them.

I'm sorry but you are completely off.

No one who argues FOR using guns as personal protection would suggest shooting someone for making them mad! Of all the many people I know who carry firearms, NONE of them would ever argue that it's okay to shoot someone for hurt feelings.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

MYTH: Keeping guns in the home increases personal protection.

TRUTH: Obviously, self defense is not a good argument against gun control since those who own firearms are actually more likely to be victims of homicide. Two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that keeping a gun in the home increases the risk of both suicide and homicide. Keeping a gun in the home makes it 2.7 times more likely that someone will be a victim of homicide in your home (in almost all cases the victim is either related to or intimately acquainted with the murderer) (source) and 4.8 times more likely that someone will commit suicide (source). Guns make it more likely that a suicide attempt will be successful than if other means were used such as sleeping pills.

Who are you scared off? We can always go back to the wild west days, and we just all carry around guns, and if someone makes you mad, just shoot them.

I'm sorry but you are completely off.

No one who argues FOR using guns as personal protection would suggest shooting someone for making them mad! Of all the many people I know who carry firearms, NONE of them would ever argue that it's okay to shoot someone for hurt feelings.

But it happens all the time. It's not a matter of the the NRA arguing that gun owners should all shoot up a mall. That's irrelavent to the fact that having access to guns makes shooting up a mall a rather easy task.

[rhymeswithcandi 0]

This case is a bit ironic. Conservatives dont like activists on the supreme court. But in order to find the Washington DC law unconstitutional based on the second amendment, they have to be activists.

No, they would have to be activists to decide that they could pass a law outlawing guns. You have it backwards. The constitution clearly states that we have the right to bear arms.

You do understand that the "right to bear arms" does have limits, right? A bomb for every baby, I guess.

Every right has limits yes. For example, a convicted felon cannot bear arms etc. But the right to bear arms is a right. The second amendment is a right just like the nineteenth amendment! Limiting an American's right to bear arms is no different than putting limits on a woman's right to vote. Would you argue that the 19th amendments is a limited right too?

This case is about the gun ban in DC which is unconstitutional!

So wouldn't the ban on automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles be considered unconstitutional?

I, personally, don't think the ban is unconstitutional. It doesn't ban all weapons, just handguns, and I have yet to get one decent reason why handguns should be legal.

Here is one reason handguns should be legal. It's in the form of a scenario - Some crazy person walks into a shopping mall and raises a gun planning to mow down every person in the place. One law abiding citizen who happens to be at that same mall sees crazy person. Law-abiding Citizen draws his firearm and tells Crazy to drop his weapon. One of two things happens in this scenario - Crazy drops his weapon or doesn't an Law-abiding Citizen shoots him. Either way, the fact that someone in that shopping mall is armed ends up being a huge factor in saving many lives.

Another reason is that it is in the constitution - period.

DC doesn't just ban handguns... rifles must be locked and unloaded. Does that really ensure someone's personal protection in their own home? It doesn't.

The DC handgun ban has NOT kept guns out of the hands of criminals. It simply has not. All it does is prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. Criminals don't think twice if they know their "mark" is unarmed. The DC handgun ban provides criminals with a city FULL of vulnerable unarmed citizens.

[Yoink 7]

Forget about gun control... lets have bullet control... make every bullet cost $5,000. Then there wouldn't be innocent bystanders... That person must have really deserved to die. You heard about Tito.. he got shot 10 times... whooo he must of done something bad!

I would put a cap in your ####... if I could afford it.

Chris Rock said it right.

[mawilson 2,133]

Another reason is to deter burglars.

US burglars avoid breaking into occupied homes because they fear being shot: only

13 per cent of US burglaries took place while the victims were home, compared with

59 per cent in the UK.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

Here is one reason handguns should be legal. It's in the form of a scenario - Some crazy person walks into a shopping mall and raises a gun planning to mow down every person in the place. One law abiding citizen who happens to be at that same mall sees crazy person. Law-abiding Citizen draws his firearm and tells Crazy to drop his weapon. One of two things happens in this scenario - Crazy drops his weapon or doesn't an Law-abiding Citizen shoots him. Either way, the fact that someone in that shopping mall is armed ends up being a huge factor in saving many lives.

You forgot the likely scenario of law-abiding citizen thinking he's John Wayne (which most CCL owners I know fit the bill), firing off a whole clip in the general direction of the perp, and hitting several fleeing bystanders in the process.

I'm sorry, but this is not the wild west, hombre.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

Another reason is to deter burglars.

US burglars avoid breaking into occupied homes because they fear being shot: only

13 per cent of US burglaries took place while the victims were home, compared with

59 per cent in the UK.

I would rather be robbed than killed. The numbers of murders in the two countries are quite different per capita.

[rhymeswithcandi 0]

Here is one reason handguns should be legal. It's in the form of a scenario - Some crazy person walks into a shopping mall and raises a gun planning to mow down every person in the place. One law abiding citizen who happens to be at that same mall sees crazy person. Law-abiding Citizen draws his firearm and tells Crazy to drop his weapon. One of two things happens in this scenario - Crazy drops his weapon or doesn't an Law-abiding Citizen shoots him. Either way, the fact that someone in that shopping mall is armed ends up being a huge factor in saving many lives.

You forgot the likely scenario of law-abiding citizen thinking he's John Wayne (which most CCL owners I know fit the bill), firing off a whole clip in the general direction of the perp, and hitting several fleeing bystanders in the process.

I'm sorry, but this is not the wild west, hombre.

You give me at least 2 solid examples of this happens and I MIGHT give you a big fat "touché"

It's NOT the wild west... It's America

[mawilson 2,133]

Another reason is to deter burglars.

US burglars avoid breaking into occupied homes because they fear being shot: only

13 per cent of US burglaries took place while the victims were home, compared with

59 per cent in the UK.

I would rather be robbed than killed. The numbers of murders in the two countries are quite different per capita.

I'd rather kill the robber than be robbed.