US Sup Court - 2nd Amendment decision to hear Heller Case?

Question

Given the judicial activism that exists in this country, How will my fellow gun owners react if the US Sup Court does not rule in favor of Heller v DC?

I know what I think. Just curious how others feel about it.

DJ,

Agreed!
x4cummins. If the ruling falls wrong, joining the NRA would be a day late and dollar short. --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —

Complacency among many has become part of the problem. I agree totally.

I've asked people in the past, what IS your line in the sand?

Over my 50 years of life, the lines many place, have been crossed deliteriously over and over.

Answer 1

If a government does not uphold the Constitution and the God-given rights that we have (and that the Constitution merely recognizes) as citizens, that government has crossed the line into tyranny.

I will let Thomas Jefferson give his wise counsel on what should be our course of action at that point:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...

And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson,
November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith

Answer 2

A question with many approaches, views, and certainly answers.

While I am not the first to just jump on the NRA bandwagon and say that everyone should join an association to make them feel better, I don't think that we should sit idly while this decision is made by a Supreme Court whose interests are not those of the common American.

Our Gentlefriend quoting the words of our forefathers hit several points of interest in addition to those provided by yourself Mr. Whitman.

Unfortunately, we have become VERY complacent with life as we know it and most would be unwilling to make sacrifices to ensure our current civil services organization is "serving the civils".

Our government is banking on that and has definitely overstepped boundaries in place. It is no longer an organization built to serve the people, but one that makes the people provide service to it. We are no longer a single entity, but as is easily visible we are divided into the government and the People with a vast chasm of civil "rest" in between.

Our governing body currently has too much power and is VERY willing to use it. We have the capacity to change it even if it is only to say "step the fuq back".

The question is......will we? How far are we willing to be pushed?

I love my country, that will never change...but my founding fathers would laugh out loud at what we have let it become.

Sometimes I just feel like using the words of some other "forefathers" and in a quote from my longstanding friends at the N.W.A crew......"Fuq tha Police"

Answer 3

i have not heard about the end results of the case yet, and that i relish each and each of the links to the finished courtroom. so some distance as your different questions bypass, i have self belief the right to save and undergo palms is a sacred properly for human beings. The "protection force" observed contained in the structure change into each individual, problem to the formation right into a collection for communal probability-free practices. contained in the perfect one hundred years or so, "protection force" has been redefined because the nationwide look after, yet honestly, it really is basically yet another branch of the protection force. because that most of the rights contained in the structure were there to guard the individuals from an overbearing authorities, the individuals could preserve the right to be armed on a individual foundation. And, about your ex-boyfriend... maximum folk position self belief in gun administration. i want to regulate my gun by ability of protecting a company 2-exceeded grip, planting my ft solidly, or maybe as available, use a bench or tree limb to help the gun. And, oh, definite, he's a girlieman.

Answer 4

I hate to say it on a public forum, but I think it will mean that it is just about time for some one to run up the Bonnie Blue Flag and remind the Federal Government of Thomas Jefferson's words.

The Tree of Liberty must from time to time be nourished with the blood or Patriot and Tyrants.

Answer 5

I think the court will rule in favor of Heller, and the peoples right. Although I'm not so sure as to whether the court will make a decision clarifying the second amendment nationaly, or specific to the district.

Answer 6

We can only hope that the Court will do it's sworn duty to interpret the Constitution and not make law as they have done in the past.
I fear we are much too well fed to revolt in this day and age.

Answer 7

IF they were to rule against him, I would hope that ALL gunowners would join the NRA - unite behind OUR own lobby fighting for our rights!

You dont have to like politics, or completely agree with all stances the NRA takes - but you do have to recognize that without them, NO ONE would be standing up for our constitutionally guaranteed rights.