On Mar 2, 11:31*am, Tim Wescott wrote:
RBnDFW wrote:
Joe wrote:
Today, the Court is supposed to take up the issue of whether or not
local governments have the right to restrict gun ownership.
It will be an interesting test of the mettle of old-time
Conservatives, who are fond of arguing in favor of "States' Rights"
over the power of the Federal government. I predict that they will
conveniently forget the states' rights issue for the duration of this
decision.

While I agree with them on the core issue of the inalienability of
citizens' rights to posses firearms, I can't help but think that
states' rights has always been a smoke screen for discriminatory
and/or repressive behavior.

Since the Court is tilted in favor of Conservatives, I suppose that
the decision will favor gun rights, but I remain suspicious about the
real agenda of any politicians; despite all their populist talk, they
don't want too much power vested in the hands of the citizenry. Here's
hoping that the decision will be made in favor of freedom.

I think you are missing the point.
The issue is that the rights are given by the Creator, and the
government is constrained from limiting those rights.
The individual states should also be required to recognize the same rights.
* *No state should be allowed to restrict basic rights of humans.

Yet the Supreme Court is supposed to be interpreting the US
constitution, not the Bible or any other religious text.

Which is fine with me, and makes me glad that's how things work in the
US -- if _you_ want to live in a land where the rules are made and
enforced according to some preacher's interpretation of religious law,
there's always Iran.

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Tim Wescott
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....or any state south of the Mason Dixon line.

TMT