Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

"Diogenes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Roger wrote:
>  > "David Lentz" <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
>  > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >
>  >>
>  >> Steve Krulick wrote:
>  >>
>  >> <snip>
>  >>
>  >>>>> Look at the court cases. You're wrong.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Wrong.  The federal government has no constitutional authority to
>  >>>> infringe on the private ownership of weapons.
>  >>>
>  >>> Wrong. The Const says nothing about private ownership of guns one
>  >>> way or the other. But as regulation and restriction is NOT the same
>  >>> as infringement, your point is moot.
>  >>>
>  >>> LOVE v. PEPERSACK No. 94-1582. United States Court of Appeals,
>  >>> Fourth Circuit. Decided Feb. 3, 1995.
>  >>
>  >> Learn to read.
>  >>
>  >> I stated the fact that the federal government has no constitutional
>  >> authority to infringe on the private ownership of weapons.  If you
>  >> feel my assertion is wrong, feel free to cite portion of the
>  >> Constitution which gives the federal government such authority.
>  >>
>  >> Good luck.
>  >>
>  >> Don't bother citing any court case.  Cite the Constitution.
>  >
>  >
>  > This is the fatal flaw in your legal thinking. No law, including the
>  > Contitution, means ANYTHING AT ALL until a court interprets it.
>
> And the courts have no meaning or authority except by the Constitution,
> which you say has no meaning till what it creates says so, except how can
> something with no meaning create the courts for them to say it means
something?
>
> Nice chicken and the egg ya got there.
>
> The fact is, the courts can interpret how the MEANING that is THERE gets
> applied, in certain circumstances, but they ARE to ABIDE by the MEANING
> that is THERE.
>
> No contract, compact, or Constitution serves any purpose whatsoever, other
> than perhaps deception, if it's meaning can be simply 'interpreted' away.
>
>

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