Comments on: Nevada ACLU Backs Gun Rights

Bucks National Organization In Supporting Recent Court Ruling On Right To Own Handguns

[jon2012-2009]

I''m still just amazed that the Supreme Court ruled the way it did on the 2nd Amendment, as granting a constitutional right to own guns for self-protection with neither ''guns'' nor ''self-protection'' being mentioned in the amendment.

The right to bear arms is now being equated to gun ownership. I guess ''swords'' and ''arrows'' and ''boiling oil'' don''t rate any more mention though there was a time you couldn''t fight a battle without them. But if you''re talking about today''s war, then shouldn''t we be talking about machine guns, bombs, conventional and dirty, biological and chemical weapons? Instead of guns?

[cfin5]

seataffer,.....You have a lot of revised history in your head. You believe what you think is true,...I will believe what I know is true.

[republic1776]

cfin5,
What are you saying?
You support right to bare arms?
What the heck does the Switzerland people speaking in France have to do with it?
Criminals have Guns, I want to be armed too!

[lorinkundert]

Gun ownership is a question the Government has never had the power to address, the 2nd Amendment is very simple and direct for a reason.

[patriot12436]

I guess seataffer and nancy don''t like honest straight forward questions.

[patriot12436]

cfin5
I think that the Swiss govt would be an excellent govt to follow. Very good commen.

[cfin5]

Switzerland virtually invented the policy of "armed neutrality": It started no wars and sought no empire, but defended itself with ferocity when attacked. This policy committed it to staying out of other nations'' quarrels and trading with all belligerents to the extent permitted by circumstance. The rise of modern nationalism, with its presumption that national boundaries should reflect commonalities of language and lineage, posed a direct challenge to the reasons for Switzerland''s existence. Only historical accident, it seemed to nationalist thinkers, separated Swiss Germans (the majority) from the mass of Germans. By the same logic Swiss French clearly belonged with their fellow French-speakers and Swiss Italians with Italy. By the late 1930s, Nazi cartographers were provocatively including German-speaking Swiss cantons in their maps of Grossdeutschland. The Swiss Federal Council replied as follows: "We reject the concept of race or common descent as the basis of a state and as the factor determining political frontiers." The Swiss "national idea," said the council, rests instead on a "spiritual decision" to commit to certain values, of which the most important, it added pointedly, were federalism, democracy, and "respect for the dignity of the individual."

[cfin5]

As Halbrook reminds us, the American Founders often cited Switzerland as an example of the kind of nation they hoped to build on these shores. They admired its survival for centuries as a democracy amid tyrannies of every kind, following its birth in 1291 as the result of a peasant revolt in the remote fastnesses of the Alps. In 1774, during an unsuccessful attempt to urge Quebec to join the colonists'' cause, the Continental Congress pointed to the Swiss federalist model, in which an unassuming central government let diverse cantons go their own way, with religious differences set aside: "Their union is composed of Roman Catholic and Protestant States, living in the utmost concord and peace with one another and thereby enabled, ever since they bravely vindicated their freedom, to defy and defeat every tyrant that has invaded them." Said Patrick Henry: "Let us follow their example, and be happy."

[cfin5]

Posted by kenhamlett at 10:38 AM : Jul 13, 2008---- Well said. Loopholes in language take different ways around the barn. Can''t blink at anyone of them these days.

[cfin5]

,...."That''''''''s right, I''''''''m not.---- We still have a good laugh recalling the flipped out screaming for dear life that followed all the way to the poky. ...

Posted by cfin5

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Now that''''s funny!!! LOL!!!

Posted by Latrocinor at 10:18 AM : Jul 13, 2008--- Oh was it ever,...sadly though. I can''t help to think that if this man had so much as a smidgen of his desire to live when sober as he did when lit, he would never do drugs or hang around with those that do.