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Be afraid, be very afraid
Mar. 18th, 2008 11:12 amHistoric case may decide U.S. gun rights
Now, see, I'm not a gun nut. I don't own any. I don't plan to own any.
But even I realize that taking away gun rights is a bad idea.
You see, it's always easier to bestow rights then to take them away. And when the rights being taken away (maybe, depends on how the Supreme Court jumps on this one) involve firearms, you can bet that there's going to be a lot of people paying attention to this.
Hell, if SCOTUS decides to really limit gun rights, you can bet the state of Texas (and most of the rural South, for that matter) will shit themselves into a frenzy, not to mention how the NRA will go apeshit. (Note: A quote from Charlton Heston on those "damn dirty apes" may be quite appropriate.) And this is the wrong time to limit gun rights. I'm not talking because of a fear of "terrorism". I'm talking about the current low opinion of the federal government. The Prez has, what, a 20-something percent approval rating. Congress is not held in much higher esteem. And with the Feds fucking over people's rights left and right under the guise of protection, now would be the worst time (from a paranoid conspiracy theorist's point of view), to start seizing guns from all over the country.
Honestly, I can't see the Supreme Court being quite so stupid as to limit gun rights. But if they decide that the Second Amendment only applies to militias, you're going to see a lot of people forming new ones in an attempt to keep their guns. I'm honestly not sure how well that would work, though....
Now, see, I'm not a gun nut. I don't own any. I don't plan to own any.
But even I realize that taking away gun rights is a bad idea.
You see, it's always easier to bestow rights then to take them away. And when the rights being taken away (maybe, depends on how the Supreme Court jumps on this one) involve firearms, you can bet that there's going to be a lot of people paying attention to this.
Hell, if SCOTUS decides to really limit gun rights, you can bet the state of Texas (and most of the rural South, for that matter) will shit themselves into a frenzy, not to mention how the NRA will go apeshit. (Note: A quote from Charlton Heston on those "damn dirty apes" may be quite appropriate.) And this is the wrong time to limit gun rights. I'm not talking because of a fear of "terrorism". I'm talking about the current low opinion of the federal government. The Prez has, what, a 20-something percent approval rating. Congress is not held in much higher esteem. And with the Feds fucking over people's rights left and right under the guise of protection, now would be the worst time (from a paranoid conspiracy theorist's point of view), to start seizing guns from all over the country.
Honestly, I can't see the Supreme Court being quite so stupid as to limit gun rights. But if they decide that the Second Amendment only applies to militias, you're going to see a lot of people forming new ones in an attempt to keep their guns. I'm honestly not sure how well that would work, though....
