Supreme Court won't rule on carrying guns in public

[warrior1]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/05/supreme-court-guns-public/7884041/

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appears hesitant to wade back into the national debate on guns.

The court refused Monday to decide whether the right to bear arms extends outside the home. The justices won't consider a challenge to a New Jersey law that restricts most residents from carrying guns in public.

The case would have marked the most significant gun control case at the high court since its District of Columbia v. Heller decision in 2008 upheld the right to keep handguns at home for self-defense.

The New Jersey challenge was backed by the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners Foundation. "The Second Amendment guarantees the right to carry weapons for the purpose of self-defense — not just for self-defense within the home, but for self-defense, period," the NRA argued in its brief to the high court.


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[ladjf]

1. Worst SC in history. nt

[upaloopa]

2. It's occurring to me more and more that

our gun culture is out of control. When people are intimidated by gun carriers I feel the rights of those being intimidated are being ignored.
A case in point is the story were the fast food workers locked themselves in a cooler.
What are you supposed to do when a gunner shows up like these open carry guys did. Are you to take them as good guys with guns or bad guys with guns? The wrong decision could get you killed. Why should people have to put up with that.
Someone carrying a gun openly should know that it is disturbing to the majority of people. If they don't know that they are ignorant and if they do know it they are anti social.
So the question is how are we going to respect the wishes of people who don't want gun carriers near them.
It seems that nothing can be done legislatively. The right is in control of the gun culture.
I think carrying a loaded gun is a sign that the person carrying it is delusional and paranoid. So much so it boarders on mental illness. The normal thing is what most of us do and that is not to play with guns. So it is abnormal to carry a loaded gun. In other cultures this is understood as it is here except we have a misinterpreted 2nd Amendment which forces the rest of us to be submitted to the mental diseases of our gun culture. It is not enough to point out to the gun owners that they lack the self confidence that the majority has to face the world unarmed. Be it little penis syndrome or what ever it is just plain cowardice to be afraid of a bad guy 24/7.
So what are we to do?
I say let's call a spade a spade. The gun culture is nothing more than a collection of self centered anti social individuals burning incense to the alter of the gun manufactures in an effort force the rest of us to see as a normal everyday occurrence the shootings we read about and the open carrying of guns everywhere as the price we must pay for their freedom.
We don't need to accept this.

[Boomerproud]

3. The NRA would simply say to the workers in the cooler is...

bring your own gun to work, then you won't be frightened.

[CanonRay]

4. They already f'd everything up with their last decision

why get back into it?

[NightWatcher]

5. Of course they won't rule on it, some gun nut might shoot them

Hate radio would preach how "someone oughta do something about the Supremes" and then sit back and wait for one of their soft skulled listeners to act.

Everyone is scared of those nutjobs, the Supremes are no different.

[MO_Moderate]

6. .

So tomorrow will be no different than today, which was no different than yesterday.

[Spazito]

7. By refusing to take up the case...

the law in New Jersey stands, restricting most residents from carrying guns in public. For once, they didn't support the NRA and it's gun nut supporters and, instead, left it to the State and it's courts.

Interesting.