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Yes, they just add religious teaching into the standard lessons. So an atheist group would need to do the same, but I guarantee some of the people supporting the religious schools will find a reason to oppose government money for Atheists.
A lot of the religious right would say the schools are already atheistic.

But they’d really have a meltdown if the satanists opened a school (even though satanism isn’t actually devil worship or anything).
 
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The best you have is to tell someone that disagrees with you on this issue is that they’re Adolf? There are millions of Jews who might and should be offended at the comparison. Not to mention the thousands of American lives lost fighting that evil…. Hyperbole is unbecoming of you

Taking away people's liberties and celebrating it is unbecoming of any American
 
The biggest problem with the 2nd Amendment is that it’s horribly written. Depending on your interpretation of the commas and clauses it either says that well regulated militias shall not be infringed or the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. We could use a little more clarity with that one in retrospect.

Oddly enough, carrying firearms was often banned in towns in the 1800s where they couldn’t be carried at all in town and had to be turned in to the town Marshall.
You should read the actual Bruen opinion and dissent, because they recite extensive histories of the regulation of firearms and other weapons back as far as the 1600s. Quite a few cities apparently prohibited possession of firearms and other weapons well before the 1800s.

The Supreme Court left some gaping holes in stating that (1) the Second Amendment does not prohibit the regulation of "unusual" weapons, and (2) the Bruen decision does not prevent local governments from regulating possession of firearms in "sensitive" places that are "analogous" to the very short list of "sensitive" places mentioned in an earlier Supreme Court case. I saw very little guidance in the Bruen decision as to what the court thinks "unusual", "analogous" or "sensitive" mean or what methodology the court will use to define those terms.

No one on either side of the gun issue should trust that these justices are really giving us their true thoughts.
 
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Don't you think that was by design since they could have made it clear what they meant? Obviously owning a gun as an individual is not the same as a well regulated militia so what are they really saying? Are they saying states can have a militia and the government can't pass laws to stop them?
And, if the founders' real reason for the Second Amendment was for personal protection then (1) why doesn't it say so, and (2) why does it mention "militia" at all?
 
And, if the founders' real reason for the Second Amendment was for personal protection then (1) why doesn't it say so, and (2) why does it mention "militia" at all?
I’m still trying to get in touch with Mr Madison to get an answer. Wish we could actually just use some common sense in these rulings. Nobody needs an AR for self defense….
 
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I’m still trying to get in touch with Mr Madison to get an answer. Wish we could actually just use some common sense in these rulings. Nobody needs an AR for self defense….
At a computer security conference I attended the presenter said that the steps he was taking would protect against most actors, but not the NSA. He said though if the NSA was after you, you probably should rethink your life choices.

If someone NEEDS an AR for self defense, they probably should be rethinking some things.
 
Don't you think that was by design since they could have made it clear what they meant? Obviously owning a gun as an individual is not the same as a well regulated militia so what are they really saying? Are they saying states can have a militia and the government can't pass laws to stop them?
And as a result SCOTUS thinks it means we should go back to the wild west with everybody packing. wtf?
 
A lot of the religious right would say the schools are already atheistic.

But they’d really have a meltdown if the satanists opened a school (even though satanism isn’t actually devil worship or anything).
How many people will send their kids to satanic schools? I'm pretty sure not many so the school wouldn't be very viable.
 
To protect yourself and others, I presume, because there are bad guys with guns.

And that's because America is the only country in the world with more guns than people. We are also one of only 3 countries in the world where people have a constitutional right to gun ownership. The 2nd Amendment was a terrible mistake.
A well-regulated militia was an important consideration in 1789. Nobody here would consider Lucy01 to be part of a well-regulated militia, not even Lucy01. He/she lacks a well-regulated brain.
 
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A well-regulated militia was an important consideration in 1789. Nobody here would consider Lucy01 to be part of a well-regulated militia, not even Lucy01. He/she lacks a well-regulated brain.
My understanding is SCOTUS is focused on the second half of the sentence, the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed," and the reference to a well-regulated militia is a justification, but not the only one. But the idea that people have a right to own guns inevitably has led us to being a uniquely violent country.
 
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A well-regulated militia was an important consideration in 1789. Nobody here would consider Lucy01 to be part of a well-regulated militia, not even Lucy01. He/she lacks a well-regulated brain.
Right back at you with your grade school Insult.
 
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