The Down Range Forum

Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: twyacht on March 07, 2010, 06:54:05 AM

Title: The Unlikely Liberal SUPPORT for Gun Rights
Post by: twyacht on March 07, 2010, 06:54:05 AM
Wow, I'm not surprised there are some "normal" so called Democrats, in regard to advocating 2nd Amend. issues.

I am surprised it's in Newsweek. :o

Interesting read.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/234185?GT1=43002

Gun Rally

Liberals and the NRA have found common cause in a pending supreme court case.
By Ben Adler | NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 26, 2010
From the magazine issue dated Mar 8, 2010

Some excerpts:

For decades, liberals have opposed gun rights on the grounds that the Second Amendment is limited to the establishment of state militias. But some liberal dissenters from this view now say that is too narrow a reading of the Constitution. They contend that it fails to take into account the historical record and contradicts liberals' own reading of the Constitution's protection of individual rights.


 :o

The Constitutional Accountability Center, an otherwise Liberal advocacy group filed an amicus brief in the McDonald v. Chicago case, in SUPPORT of McDonald!

I think my coffee is too strong this morning.. ::)

Title: Re: The Unlikely Liberal SUPPORT for Gun Rights
Post by: Solus on March 07, 2010, 08:07:16 AM
Quote from: twyacht on March 07, 2010, 06:54:05 AM


Some excerpts:

For decades, liberals have opposed gun rights on the grounds that the Second Amendment is limited to the establishment of state militias. But some liberal dissenters from this view now say that is too narrow a reading of the Constitution. They contend that it fails to take into account the historical record and contradicts liberals' own reading of the Constitution's protection of individual rights.


 :o

The Constitutional Accountability Center, an otherwise Liberal advocacy group filed an amicus brief in the McDonald v. Chicago case, in SUPPORT of McDonald!

I think my coffee is too strong this morning.. ::)




And some of those Liberal Dissenters happen to be Supreme Court Justices, as shown by Heller
Title: Re: The Unlikely Liberal SUPPORT for Gun Rights
Post by: Rastus on March 07, 2010, 09:04:36 AM
Quote from: twyacht on March 07, 2010, 06:54:05 AM
............
I think my coffee is too strong this morning.. ::)


Heresy....that shalt not speak that again!
Title: Re: The Unlikely Liberal SUPPORT for Gun Rights
Post by: Solus on March 07, 2010, 10:47:54 AM
Quote from: Rastus on March 07, 2010, 09:04:36 AM
Heresy....that shalt not speak that again!

 :D :D :D  yeah, I serve my coffee by the slice too.