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billh58

(6,635 posts)
Mon May 5, 2014, 02:50 PM May 2014

Supreme Court won't rule on carrying guns in public

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/05/supreme-court-wont-rule-on-carrying-guns-in-public/8720961/

Note: This has also been posted in LBN, but needs wider visibility.

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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.

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New Jersey law enforcement groups defended the state's requirement that citizens prove a "justifiable need" to carry handguns outside the home, whether openly or concealed from view. In their brief, they claimed the law "qualifies as a presumptively lawful, longstanding regulation that does not burden conduct within the scope of the Second Amendment's guarantee."

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Ever since Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for a divided Supreme Court in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right to possess guns at home, the question of public places has been looming. Many states impose restrictions, such as requiring a demonstrated need to carry a gun, whether concealed or in plain sight. Most lower courts have upheld those restrictions.


The right-wing gun lobby is eager to claim victory over their view of "guns for everyone, everywhere" but it ain't over until it's over. The nightmare of "shall issue" everywhere is the stuff of gun nuts' wet dreams, and an invitation to more vigilante "justice" by the likes of Zimmerman and the Bundy domestic-terrorist "militias."

Support a gun control organization of your choice today, and help put an end to the right-wing gun lobby's push for guns as a way to solve social issues, and the public health menace guns in our streets cause.
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Supreme Court won't rule on carrying guns in public (Original Post) billh58 May 2014 OP
The Court knows public toting is polluting society. If only gun culture Hoyt May 2014 #1
+100 billh58 May 2014 #3
It's a bad sign when I breathe a huge sigh of relief whenever I hear that the SC is NOT ruling on Squinch May 2014 #2
I hear ya... billh58 May 2014 #4
Yup. So much for separation of church and state. The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves. Squinch May 2014 #5
I found the link, and guess what? billh58 May 2014 #6
I had no doubt. Squinch May 2014 #7
how will it pertain to san diego ruling jimmy the one May 2014 #8
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. The Court knows public toting is polluting society. If only gun culture
Mon May 5, 2014, 03:13 PM
May 2014

would accept fact that over 93% of population sees no reason to strut around with a gun in defiance of accepted norms.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
3. +100
Mon May 5, 2014, 03:39 PM
May 2014

Exactly correct. The right-wing gun lobby is becoming abhorrent to most Americans, including Liberal gun owners, because of their insistence on anti-social gun behavior, and for contributing to the public health menace caused by the proliferation of guns in our society.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
2. It's a bad sign when I breathe a huge sigh of relief whenever I hear that the SC is NOT ruling on
Mon May 5, 2014, 03:32 PM
May 2014

something.

I become frightened of what the "Freaky Five" might come up with next.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
4. I hear ya...
Mon May 5, 2014, 03:45 PM
May 2014

I read somewhere earlier today that the SCOTUS just approved of prayer at government meetings. Typical right-wing fundie bullshit.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
5. Yup. So much for separation of church and state. The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
Mon May 5, 2014, 03:47 PM
May 2014

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)
8. how will it pertain to san diego ruling
Tue May 6, 2014, 01:33 PM
May 2014

I wonder if this means the california ruling calling for shall issue there, can be appealed to their en banc review &/or possibly to their 9th circuit, to overturn the rogue decision that 'may issue' is an infringement on ones alleged rkba.

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