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Posted by 48PW on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 13:48:37 :

In Reply to: Re: Better, but vigilance still required posted by Joe Cimoch on Friday, June 27, 2008 at 09:30:58 :

Chicago has a hand gun law that is not too different from that of D.C.

The City Attorney of Chicago made the statement that Chicago would continue to enforce it's ban until there is a ruling against it specifically.

These cities, San Fran, New York, et al,,,
will spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and tens of years tying up a final ruling on the extent of acceptable regulation.

Of course the flip side of the argument about SCOTUS is that the Constitution does not mean what it says, it means what the 9 members of the court says it means.

Are you old enough to remember this jewel from Justice William O. Douglas.

"Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras [fringe areas]," he said, "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance."

I believe that Justic Douglas was channeling Humpty Dumpty from Alice In Wonderland who stated...

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master -- that's all.'






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