Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:44:27 -0800, "Allan Lindsay-O'Neal"
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>"John A. Stovall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:45:21 -0800, "Allan Lindsay-O'Neal"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >A lady school teacher living in a rough part of town who keeps a revolver
>in
>> >her glove compartment and gets arrested for violating a state "gun law."
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>> >Not this mess brought about by a rugby team captain fond of posing with
>his
>> >skinned head and rifles for the press.
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>> So the basic right doesn't matter but we must pick an acceptable
>> person's right to defend?
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>You missed it. Silveira was crammed with other stuff (CCW, for one) and was
>an "all or nothing" proposition.  I'd rather have the courts say "Yes, it is
>an individual right", and THEN go back and have them rule on AW.

What ever it is it will come down to "all or nothing".

>> Funny idea you have when it come to defending basic rights.
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>John, therte's no "silver bullet" to make gun control go away.  It'll be
>done one case at a time, patiently chiping away at the edifice of lies that
>have ben built around us for the last twenty years.

No but I would rather we push everyone and every case and not wait for
the "Right One".  

By the way it's been being built since 1934 at the Federal level.


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>> In fact the viler the person the more important their basic rights be
>> defended.
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>Agreed. But you put up an innocent man condemned to death to argue that
>capital punishment is wrong, not a guy that's murdered three people.

Capital Punishment is not a basic right enumerate in the Constitution.

We are talking about Basic Rights.


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