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We'll know by tomorrow at 9 AM Central but I stillhave some faith, maybe hope is a better word, in Justice Ginsberg.

She knows it is an individual right and even realizes that the militia phrase protects light machine guns. She might not vote according to this knowledge but if she ignores an enumerated right she will never again be able to claim that a right to abortion (no matter your own opinion here) which is never mentioned in the Constitution can be derived from ANOTHER unenumerated right, that of privacy.

Remember, we have the right to own and carry firearms completely separate from the 2nd Amendment, even if the Justices don't understand this.

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Rights are NOT create by the Constitution, but rather protected by it.

Same is true for privacy or AT LEAST any other right agreed upon by the vast majority of people and states.

44 States have an explicit RKBA provision -- 45 if you count the CA statute and the fact that CA law explicitly defers to the US Constitution. (Note this is different than the Feds overriding CA; CA itself says that the US Constitition is the supreme law of CA.)

IIRC this is more than have explicit freedom of the press or religion.

No Heller on Wed.

baseballguy2001 wrote:The supreme court decision on the DC gun ban will arrive tomorrow or Thursday. I listened again to the oral arguments over this past weekend and I really think we are in for some good news. My guess is it will be either 6-3 or 7-2 against the ban. Any other guesses?

It will almost certainly be affirmed (for Mr. Heller against the DC gun ban) as an individual right. I predicted 7-2 long before cert was granted, when people were saying how seldom that cert is even granted. 7-2 with an outside change aat 9-0 if the decision is very limited.

Best guess is Scalia is writing it.

Remember, this is only about overturning a BAN, and in DC which is not a state. All good, but this is only the first step on what will require several more to fix the worst problems IF this all works.

Washington DC used to be a GREAT CITY -- I almost grew up there, visiting for most summers and many Christmases and moving to the area for high school.

Our nation's capital should be the FINEST CITY ON EARTH -- the safest and the most free.

Instead it is an embarrassment and a danger to both visitors and the people who live there -- especially dangerous those who aren't rich and/or white.

And then they disarmed them too. Shameful.