Gun rights case: Supreme Court rules on second amendment

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  1. barfo

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    Where the hell is PapaG's lawyer? You all know what that means. hahah
     
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    To a non-lawyer like myself, this appeared to be an issue of whether or not our Constitution has positive or negative rights. I'm of the latter view, meaning that the Constitution exists to tell the government what it CANNOT do to me, be it local, state or federal. And it seems that the decision came down to the SC deciding that the Constitution says that government may not take the right to bear arms away from their citizens. I think I saw something CJ Roberts wrote where he stated this ruling didn't mean that there couldn't be limits on what kind of guns or how many someone could own, but merely that Chicago and DC could not make it illegal for their residents to keep and bear arms.

    It seems pretty reasonable to me and has little to do with the issue of "states rights".
     
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    The constitution is opposite of what you say. It enumerates very few powers to the State (feds, states) and all the remaining rights belong to the people.
     
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    That's what I said.
     
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    No, you said "I'm of the latter view, meaning that the Constitution exists to tell the government what it CANNOT do to me"

    If that were true, the constitution would enumerate all the things government cannot do to you. Instead, it enumerates the few weak/feeble powers government should have.
     
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