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What Have YOU Done for Heller?

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These good people have devoted much labor that will benefit us all, yet their costs are far from being covered. Who thinks it's fair that, in addition to doing all the research, writing, and production work, costs such as additional attorney fees, printing expenses, filing fees, travel and lodging expenses, etc., ought to come out of their pockets as well?


If every WarOnGuns visitor today sent them the cost of a box of ammo, they'd be well on their way to recovering most of their costs. If you then took it one step further and sent a link to this plea to your gun owning friends, we'd be able to make them completely whole.

Gratitude is important. Don't you think we owe these men at least this much?

You can send a check to:
Academics for the Second Amendment
Post Office Box 131254
St. Paul, Minn. 55113
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-have-you-done-for-heller.html
 

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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/07-290_amicus_grassrootssc.pdf

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
The Constitution is not an exclusive repository of
all rights possessed by the residents of the United
States. The right to keep and bear arms in the
privacy of one’s home is a preexisting right much like
the right to marry. It is unabridged by the Constitution
and resolves this controversy in favor of the
Respondent.
But the right to keep and bear arms in the
privacy of one’s home is additionally protected by the
Constitutional right to privacy, a penumbral right
without an explicit textual anchor. The right to
privacy gives life and substance to the guarantees of
the Bill of Rights.
A careful analysis of the text of the Second
Amendment resolves this case in favor of the
Respondent. But even if the text were viewed as
preserving a collective rather than individual right to
keep and bear arms, the Respondent would
nonetheless retain the right to keep and utilize
firearms in the privacy of his home even though the
Respondent is unconnected to a state militia.
The Second Amendment right of the people to
keep and bear arms is amplified by the right to
privacy such that mere possession and use of
firearms in the privacy of the home cannot be
constitutionally outlawed. This remains true regardless
of whether the possession and use of firearms is
connected to militia service.
Finally, the Second Amendment applies to the
District of Columbia. The District’s argument that
the Second Amendment applies only to states is
faulty. The Second Amendment does not operate to
protect the rights of the several states to field armed
militia against an encroaching federal government.
The Militia Clauses2 confirm that the states have
never had a right to engage in armed resistance
against the national government. The argument
that the Second Amendment protects this unconstitutional
“right” must accordingly fail.
An individual right to keep and bear arms in the
privacy of one’s home is a pre-Constitutional natural
right both expressly protected by the plain text of the
Second Amendment and implicitly protected by the
penumbral right to privacy.

INTEREST OF THE AMICUS CURIAE 1
Grass Roots of South Carolina, Inc. (“Grass
Roots”) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization
whose mission is to protect the rights of law-abiding
persons to possess and use firearms. Grass Roots
advocates in favor of gun rights in both the
legislative and judicial spheres. Grass Roots has
several thousand members and contributors, most of
whom are gun owners who stand to be directly
affected by the Court’s interpretation of the Second
Amendment. Further, most Grass Roots members
are members of the unorganized militia of South
Carolina pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 25-1-60.
Grass Roots’ specific interest in this case concerns
the nature of the right conveyed by the Second
Amendment. Grass Roots respectfully submits that
its substantial experience regarding gun rights
issues will be of aid to the Court. Further, Grass
Roots’ members’ status as firearm-owning members
of an unorganized militia provides a unique
perspective which may be useful to the Court.
This brief will focus upon a single narrow issue:
the question of how the Bill of Rights’ penumbral
right to privacy shapes the contours of the rights
conveyed by the Second Amendment.
 

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Can you please explain what your link is and why it is relevant? Just posting a link is very rude, and you know better.



edit: spelling
 

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expvideo wrote:
Can you please explain what your link is and why it is relevant? Just posting a link is very rude, and you know better.


Yes he knows better, and Doug is often right on target, but we all have our little idiosyncrasies and........ well Doug has his too.



I try not to get argumentative and take the good that I learn from others and sort of ignore that which adds nothing. I don't always succeed, but I try.

Having my own idiosyncrasies I some times fail, but I am trying.



Tarzan
 

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expvideo wrote:
Can you please explain what your link is and why it is relevant? Just posting a link is very rude, and you know better.



edit: spelling

From where are you getting/linking your copies of the DC v. Heller ac briefs?

The topic of this thread is "What Have YOU Done for Heller?" I helped pay for this work and was honored to be allowed to make the first links to it by GRGRSC.

As for your admonition - pfft!

Perhaps excptionally, I read the URLs as more than 'just a link posted' contrary to tinyurl.com.
 

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Doug thank you for posting the text with the link.

I access this board from my work and I have just today had to write an e-mail explaining why when following a link I received a filtered content message. These messages bring my Internet access into review and could jeopardize my continued access of this board as well as my job.

I have learned from experience that you do not post spurious links, but I am still hesitant to follow links as from time to time I find myself with some explaining to do.

Thank you for what you have done for Heller.



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Doug Huffman wrote:
tarzan1888 wrote:
Doug thank you for posting the text with the link. ... Tarzan
You are welcome. And I apopogize for being testy. Somehow the quality of discourse here has degraded.

:lol: I know I fight it myself. (being testy)



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