Comments on: Responses to Heller

By: CJ Ciaramella

CJ Ciaramella — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:35:15 +0000

Yeah, most of the commentors on the Blue Oregon article were for the decision. I mainly just use “librul” as self-parody.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:54:37 +0000

How come it’s only self-professed liberals who spell it “librul”?

By: Pat Ryan

Pat Ryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24:20 +0000

Just for the record, regarding Blue Oregon, there were several of us “Libruls” that were arguing for

” The concept of the Second Amendment as a bulwark against an overly oppressive government”,

including offering quotes from the Federalist Papers to back up our arguments.

I was one of them, and a little acknowledgement of the facts would not have hurt anyone.

By: Josh M.

Josh M. — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:29:10 +0000

Even funnier than the Supreme Court video, check out “McCain Vows To Replace Secret Service With His Own Bare Fists.”

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:40:40 +0000

The ruling is narrow, and the arguments on both sides sophomoric. Basically the court said, ‘well it’s okay to own a gun, but only in your house, but it can be registered, owner licensed, taxed to hell, and whatever sort of other regulatory tyrannical burduns imposed at the whim of any level of government.’ Gee, I’m glad 5 elitist shit-for-brains - the other 4 being much worse - gave me permission to do something I’ve been doing my whole life and WILL continue to do till the end, and even at the peril, of my own life. Basically they knew it had to come down like this or else a whole lot of their bureaucratic colleagues would have been in grave danger of not seeing reaching retirement age. It’s really amazing what a losing issue gun control is, and how insane anyone is who pushes for gun grabbing. It’s like advocating slavery for full employment in an economy.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:33:47 +0000

Really, I think it’s Kennedy’s court more than Roberts’. He’s the only unpredictable vote anymore. Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer are predictable lefty votes. Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas are pretty predictable righty votes - Thomas can be somewhat unpredictable on some issues like due process, but he’s taken a more statist bent recently.

Kennedy is the only justice whose decisions aren’t easily predictable given the case presented, so I’d say it’s really his court.

By: Sean Jin

Sean Jin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:49:37 +0000

Boobie’s right on the Supreme Court thing.
Souter, Ginsberg, Kennedy, Breyer, and Stevens were the ones that voted to strike down the MCA, with the more ‘conservative’ judges voting not to.

By: Boobie

Boobie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:04:43 +0000

Ruling 5 to 4 against the administration isn’t exactly “sticking it” to them. But that doesn’t really matter.

Though I’m sure that we disagree fundamentally, I like the point from Balko. Without the right (and more importantly, the ability) to overthrow your government, the second amendment seems trivial.

Of course, as a hopeless librul, I’d rather see all weapons more sinister than an inch and a half long blade of a swiss army knife outlawed. But before we freedom haters can realize this dream, we’ll have to legalize pot. The prison-industrial complex still lacks the supply necessary to meet demand and we’ll need to free up enough space to lock up all of you newly criminalized gun-nuts.