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Originally posted by dashar
Originally posted by scubagravy
Bahaha, i have to laugh at the current replies to this thread.
Australia's guns were taken because of a staged one man massacre.
As sad as it is my American friends, your guns will be taken from you,............(not from my cold dead hands ) i hear some say...... Wake up!
How you going to stop them, done a great job so far....
Im not american.
BUt i think america is diffrent kettle of fish than australia ,They have 52 states /armys in a way, some are pro gun,and lots of militia groups about.
Austrailia was like a british colony, america loves beating the brits they did it before think it was cornwalley.
I think it will get interesting in the USA the last stand before world tyranny,
Makes me think of all the school shootings now you say a staged shooting happened in austrailia the purpose may be to alter mass public views on gun ownership
Originally posted by scubagravy
Bahaha, i have to laugh at the current replies to this thread.
Australia's guns were taken because of a staged one man massacre.
As sad as it is my American friends, your guns will be taken from you,............(not from my cold dead hands ) i hear some say...... Wake up!
How you going to stop them, done a great job so far....
Originally posted by hawkiye
So we have a Canadian, a Brit, and an Australian telling Americans they won't stand up against gun confiscation. Please fellows we aren't a bunch of pussies who have allowed gun confiscation such as your countries.
In my state of Idaho I can buy any gun or rifle I want from any individual with no paperwork and no questions asked.
[edit on 15-3-2010 by hawkiye]
Originally posted by Imightknow
When the time ever comes that America is on the verge of being disarmed, I just really hope that all the talkers become walkers as well and do fight to the death whoever it is doing the disarming. One of the biggest problems that face our country is that Americans are the BEST at running their mouths and not so good at actually doing anything about anything. We'll see. Keep them barrels clean and chambers loaded fellas.
Are gun laws worth fighting a war over? Abso-friggin-lutely
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Amendment II
Right to keep and bear arms
This amendment was briefly incorporated against the states within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from April to September, 2009. It was subsequently vacated and was granted a rehearing en banc. Also, the amendment has recently been held to not be incorporated against the states within the jurisdiction of the Second and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals[18]. Such a situation is termed a circuit split, and it can have a major influence on the acceptance of certiorari by the Supreme Court. On September 30, 2009, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to McDonald v. Chicago, a case in which the Seventh Circuit ruled against incorporation.
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Regarding the Second Amendment and the incorporation doctrine, the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller said (in a footnote):
With respect to Cruikshank's continuing validity on incorporation, a question not presented by this case, we note that Cruikshank also said that the first amendment did not apply against the states and did not engage in the sort of Fourteenth Amendment inquiry required by our later cases. Our later decisions in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252, 265 (1886) and Miller v. Texas, 153 U.S. 535, 538 (1894), reaffirmed that the Second Amendment applies only to the Federal Government.
The Cruikshank case held that states could violate the 1st Amendment right to freedom of assembly, the 2nd Amendment right to arms and the 15th Amendment right to vote without the possibility of Federal oversight. The Cruikshank case arose from events now known as the Colfax Massacre, in which blacks trying to vote in Louisiana in 1873 were systematically disarmed and then subjected to three days of arson, riot, rape and murder with over 100 dead before Federal troops moved in to restore order.
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