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The Breyer Patch

A_Freeman Wrote: Mar 09, 2010 6:42 PM

Thanks for the heads-up, I haven't posted here in awhile, and thus am not familiar with Jim#1. In the past with such posters as Lilly or Hal Donahue I engaged up to a point, and then ignored. I start by giving someone the benefit of the doubt, but if I then see they choose to hold to their superstitions or misrepresentations, I will not engage, unless it's such a groos distortion of truth that I think it needs to be addressed.
Even then I still think some are served by my comments as many Americans do not have a good foundational understanding of the US constitution, and the presumption of liberty based on our natural rights that precedes it. So it may be that one such as Jim#1 is a lost cause, but if I can add anything to...

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The Breyer Patch

Justice Stephen Breyer was one of the four dissenting voices in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the landmark Supreme Court case ruling that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right, rather than a collective right, which merely attaches to service in a state militia. On page 35 of his 44 page dissent, Justice Breyer states the following:

“The upshot is that the District’s objectives are compelling; its predictive judgments as to the law’s tendency to achieve those objectives are adequately supported [emphasis mine]; the law does impose a burden upon any self-defense interest that...