Hi
By Mitch Berg
Mitch here.
As you read this, it’s 9AM. I’m cut off from the world, in a meeting. I’ll be 150 yards from my computer. And yet I might as well be at the bottom of a well, or in the Gobi Desert for all the good it does me.
By now, most of you probably know how the Heller decision came out.
But not me. I’m ignorant enough to be a friggin’ MNBlue writer right about now.
So I’ll be…:
- Working my butt off to reach an early consensus on the design issues that led to this meeting
- Racing back to the cube
- Ignoring all watercooler conversation, avoiding my conservative co-workers, and eschewing all comments on this thread until I can read the SCOTUS wire.
It’s gonna be news to me, dammit.
(And yes, I’m actually writing this on Wednesday night, and setting it to publish at 9AM sharp, in case you were wondering why I’m writing this and not looking at the wire).
That is all.
The hell it is.
I wonder if the Minnesoros “Independent” will even wait for the decision before they print some release from some astroturf group or another – “Sportsmen for Gun Control” or “Self-Defense Shooters for Handgun Bans”, or some other such potemkin front group for Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota, as if it were a credible, mass position on the issue?
June 26th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Gun kooks win! DUCK!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:31 am
5-4; Scalia writing. More soon.
Damn. I wish I had the Depends concession for angryclown’s neighborhood . . .
June 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Wish for the handgun concession instead, moron. You pansy Minnesota boys wouldn’t last 10 minutes in this town.
Stevens, in dissent, thinks the militia clause limits the Amendment. Scalia disagrees. Scalia’s right. God help us, the framers intended all you kooks to have your own muskets.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Well, clown, you can always try to convince 3/4 of the states that your views are correct.
Or just convince another Justice that a “living Constitution” is the way to go.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Here’s the decision:
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-2901.pdf
June 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Read again, nerd, you great half-wit. I said Scalia’s right.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Gee, I hope people in New York will still be safe.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:19 am
God help us, the framers intended all you kooks to have your own muskets.
In the immortal words of a certain red-nosed chain yanker from the east coast: SUCK IT!!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am
You pansy Minnesota boys wouldn’t last 10 minutes in this town.
Stockholm Syndrome at work.
Anyway – Er, I’ve seen the way you guys shoot.
There’s a reason mafioso have to hold the gun up against the guys’ heads to rub ’em out; at ranges much beyond “physical contact”, Stevie Wonder would shoot a tighter pattern. That Modified John Woo stance that Noo Yawk lowlifes love so much is the best thing that ever happened to living targets.
41 shots on a non-moving target at ten feet? In North Dakota, 41 shots gets less than 20 hits only if they’re sprinting at full deflection over 100 yards.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
the framers intended all you kooks to have your own muskets
The Brown Bess was to 1776 what the AK series is to today; simple and rugged, lousy accuracy, but a very high effective rate of fire and easy to teach a peasant how to use and maintain.
Make mine a SIG510, please.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Evolving standards, eh Mitch? Nice to see you kooks getting your policy preferences through your own activist judges.
Might also want to read the part where Scalia thinks it’s ok to ban guns in places like schools and government buildings. Also to regulate the commercial sale of guns.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
policy preferences
They’re called “overarching principles”, actually.
Might also want to read the part where Scalia thinks it’s ok to ban guns in places like schools and government buildings
Nothing new there – and it pushes it back out to the legislative domain…
…where, lest you forget, the good guys are kicking ass.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Really? Cause Angryclown was always entertained when you wingnuts would rail against judges creating new rights and overturning the enactments of popularly elected legislatures. Not so much today, eh?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Upholding the bill of rights is conservative, AC. As for the inevitable response about warrantless wiretapping, habeous corpus, etc, I’ll just say that you noted the majority’ opinion today included references to common-sense regulations on the sale of guns.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I think I’ll celebrate by finally buying that AR15.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
ac: saying that an established right — the RKBA is right there in the Constitution; read it — is, well, just that can be a lot of things, but it sure as hell isn’t “creating new rights.”