Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year...
by Turing_Machine on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:20AM
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> Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.
None of the Bill of Rights applied to the states until the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868, after which it was held to be "incorporated to the states". State and local laws from the colonial period are not relevant.
During the same period, several states had established churches, but I see no one arguing that the First Amendment still permits that.
Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year...
by melling on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:30AM
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It’s surprising that Justice Stevens didn’t understand that when he wrote it in May of this year.
Is it possible that he did and you’re missing something?
Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year...
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @04:02PM
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Justice Stevens is the outlier here. The majority of the court agrees with me, not him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/john-paul-...
“ Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home. Boston, Philadelphia, and New York—the three largest cities in America at that time—all imposed restrictions on the firing of guns in the city limits. Boston enacted a law in 1746 prohibiting the “discharge” of any gun or pistol that was later revived in 1778; ”
“ Boston’s gunpowder law imposed a 10-pound fine on any person who took any loaded firearm into any dwelling house or barn within the town. Most, if not all, of those regulations would violate the Second Amendment as it was construed in the 5–4 decision that Justice Antonin Scalia ”
During colonial times we did not have a large standing army and relied on state militias.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-congress-off...