The bag of hot, nasty, narcissistic filled gas, speaks again ...

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Last edited Sun Jul 29, 2012, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Addresses Nation’s Gun Laws

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Sunday that there “undoubtedly are” limits on the second amendment’s right to bear arms but that these must be limitations that were viewed as reasonable at the time the U.S. Constitution was written.

A little more than a week after a mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. drew attention to the nation’s gun laws, Justice Scalia addressed a series of questions on gun rights while touting a new book on Fox News Sunday.

“Yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed,” he said. “What they are will depend on what the society understood was reasonable limitation” when the Constitution was written. He cited, for example, a misdemeanor at the time, of carrying a frightening looking weapon such as a “head ax”.

Fox’s Chris Wallace asked about weapons that can fire off a hundred shots in a minute, in reference to the recent mass murder in a movie theater in Aurora.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/07/29/supreme-court-justice-scalia-says-addresses-nations-gun-laws/?mod=e2tw

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Trying to sell his latest hot gas inflated opinions .... like our current society needs another originalist interpretation of gun laws ... I thought Wayne and his world was doing enough work on that front..and look where that got us ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021021325

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Love you Carly .... Thank you

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1. I have never wished a painful, lifelong disease on anyone.

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2. Preferably one that originates in the crotch /eom

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5. or throat, or rectum. I'm not fussy, I just want it to happen.

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3. After this statement I'm going to find it hard for Tony the Fixer to rule in favor of sub-machines

hand-held rocket launchers, 100-round magazines etc.

“My starting point and ending point probably will be what limitations are within the understood limitations that the society had at the time,” Justice Scalia said. “They had some limitation on the nature of arms that could be born. So, we’ll see what those limitations are as applied to modern weapons.”

Society didn't have a concept of all the types of guns we have now. At the time the 2nd Amendment was written shooting a rifle required you to pour the gun powder into the barrel, stuff in the wadding and the ball that was the projectile. So what society thought they were protecting was the right to bear a weapon that took minutes to reload and wasn't all that accurate. Not hand-held grenade launchers, not rifles or sub-machine guns with magazines of dozens to a hundred rounds that can be fired within micro-seconds of one another.

But, I'm sure Tony the Fixer will find some smarmy way to make it okay.

Ever since he granted an injunction on the FL recount on the basis it could cause the petitioner grievous harm and completely ignored the grievous harm to Gore he's shown us he cares squat about the law and precedent. He only cares about ensuring his desired outcome.

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4. And he was aided and abetted by that other pompous gas bag - Chris Wallace.