03-13-2018, 10:46 AM
(03-11-2018, 04:54 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-11-2018, 01:14 PM)David Horn Wrote:Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-11-2018, 02:03 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: This decision is a year old, but I had forgotten....
... "Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage.
Which directly conflicts what the US Supreme Court said in establishing a litmus test, saying the courts could only limit civilian use weapons. The courts often rule politically rather than following precedent.
So I guess that means I can have a Vulcan cannon.
There is one interpretation, since cannon were owned by the state and not by individuals in the founding father's time, that the state should be free to regulate crew served military weapons. Some ranking NRA folk have endorsed this. As the words "crew served" do not appear in the Second, you have to do a lot of legal dancing to interpret to constitution that way.
Though does that make a justice follow the author of a law's intent? Does that make prohibition work? Does that make it a good idea to force conflicting survival values on one another using representative democracy?
I suppose you are worried about spree shooters unloading their Vulcan from their pickup truck at an elementary school or hospital? I'm sure the possibility would worry you into violating the constitution.
Just so you know. There was an idiot I knew in my youth (he lived next door to me at the time) who had a violent streak from early age (he actually tired to hang me in his basement when I was 8). As an adult, he was able to buy and keep on his property a piece of field artillery, get primers for the casings and reload them in his home. He couldn't get the actual rounds, so he used baseballs. He fired them at, among other targets, 18-wheelers passing by his property. He was arrested many times before he managed to get killed in a gun fight with several of his "neighbors".
That should never have been allowed in the first place. Never!
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.