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What's the difference between the mental age of 97 and 13? Not
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As the saying goes, 'there's no fool like an old fool', and here is the perfect example of that.
Stevens was and is a relic from the days of the all powerful progressive socialists that ruled by flawed personal intelligence and corrupted wisdom formed by the absolute power to change outcomes without taking responsibility for his decisions.
The decades that he ruled were the days of America living close to home where we were born. For those of us working and living in the trenches where there was only 3 media television networks and newspaper editors that believed they knew what news was fit to tell the unwashed. T
hey were and still are progressive socialist and liberal to the extreme. Everything we saw and read was filtered through the progressive liberal screening, including, and especially the justice system.
Former Supreme Court Justice Urges Total Repeal of Second Amendment
Kevin Daley
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Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens argues for total repeal of the Second Amendment. in an opinion piece published Tuesday by The New York Times.
Stevens, who retired from the high court in 2010, wrote favorably of Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstrations, but suggested gun control supporters are far too modest in their goals. “The demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform,” he wrote. “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”
Stevens, now 97, wrote the principal dissent in D.C. v. Heller, a landmark Second Amendment case that affirmed for the first time the right to maintain firearms in the home for self-defense.
Writing for himself, then-Justice David Souter, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, Stevens argued that the Second Amendment secures the right to posses guns in connection with service in state militias.
The provision was included in the Bill of Rights, Stevens explained, given national anxieties about the tyrannical potential of a permanent standing army. He pointed to the simultaneous provisions of state constitutions that explicitly establish a right to keep firearms for self-defense, in contrast to the federal Constitution, which mentions guns only in the context of militias.
Stevens revives the themes in Tuesday’s opinion piece, calling those concerns “a relic of the 18th century.” The current court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence derives largely from National Rifle Association propaganda, he argues.
The court has said very little about the Second Amendment since 2010, when the Heller decision applied to state and local governments. Its silence has been a point of consternation for gun rights activists, as lower courts upheld a range of gun control laws in recent years.
Stevens joined the high court in 1975, an appointee of President Gerald Ford. Justice Elena Kagan, nominated by President Barack Obama, succeeded him.
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Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens argues for total repeal of the Second Amendment. in an opinion piece published Tuesday by The New York Times.
Stevens, who retired from the high court in 2010, wrote favorably of Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstrations, but suggested gun control supporters are far too modest in their goals. “The demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform,” he wrote. “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”
Stevens, now 97, wrote the principal dissent in D.C. v. Heller, a landmark Second Amendment case that affirmed for the first time the right to maintain firearms in the home for self-defense.
Writing for himself, then-Justice David Souter, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, Stevens argued that the Second Amendment secures the right to posses guns in connection with service in state militias.
The provision was included in the Bill of Rights, Stevens explained, given national anxieties about the tyrannical potential of a permanent standing army. He pointed to the simultaneous provisions of state constitutions that explicitly establish a right to keep firearms for self-defense, in contrast to the federal Constitution, which mentions guns only in the context of militias.
Stevens revives the themes in Tuesday’s opinion piece, calling those concerns “a relic of the 18th century.” The current court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence derives largely from National Rifle Association propaganda, he argues.
The court has said very little about the Second Amendment since 2010, when the Heller decision applied to state and local governments. Its silence has been a point of consternation for gun rights activists, as lower courts upheld a range of gun control laws in recent years.
Stevens joined the high court in 1975, an appointee of President Gerald Ford. Justice Elena Kagan, nominated by President Barack Obama, succeeded him.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities for this original content, email licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
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