It's a good day to be a gun owner

[cdomino]

States, hands off!

Note that it was a 5-4 decision. The importance of 2012 cannot be understated.

[TomMichieVII]

I came across this argument in some other discussion board. It seems a bit extreme for me, almost a conspiracy theory (I'm not a big conspiracy fan) but I just wanted to hear yalls opinion. In my opinion the decision reflects the equal protection law, making sure the state or local governments do not abridge our rights in any ways, and the laws in chicago were very much an abridgment of the Peoples rights. I don't see this as a "victory for our progressive gang" as this guy argues.

It seems that many gun owners believe the McDonald decision is a victory. You bet this is a “victory”, but it’s a victory for our progressive gang which has worked very, very hard over the past 50 or so years to peddle the notion that the 39th Congress intended the 14th Amendment to make the federal bill of rights enforceable upon the States by the federal government. And this big lie, which in fact it is, was the centerpiece of the McDonald v. Chicago decision and was perpetuated and given credibility by our Supreme Court in order to allow the federal government to usurp unbridled power and be in charge of dictating and finalizing what “reasonable” regulations are, in every state in the union, with regard to gun ownership. The decision did not make any change to allow McDonald to freely own a firearm as the right to keep and bear arms was intended to insure!

We now have an absolute power over gun ownership, and you can bet your bottom dollar that absolute power will be used to slowly, but effectively, disarm the American people. Freedom loving gun owners haven’t been keeping tabs on how the progressive gang has persistently used the misapplication of the 14th Amendment, [the incorporation ruse and myth] to allow the federal government to enter the States and enforce the federal bill of rights within every state’s borders, and in so doing, handed our progressive gang a tyrannical power over countless subject matters which it has been using for years for evil purposes, and to intentionally undermine the traditional and moral values which played an important part in building America’s greatness.

The misapplication of the 14th Amendment has brought us the slaughtering of millions of unborn babies; it has been used to removed traditional references to God in our schools; has compelled schools and colleges to set up and recognized homosexual clubs on a par with traditional type clubs, and has been used to compel taxpayers to finance pornography and alleged “art” which makes a bigoted mockery of religion, not to mention the enforcement of the federal bill of rights upon the states by the federal government has also been used to dissolved parental rights while coddling criminals in each of the 50 States! And now, it is called a “victory” for the federal government’s seizing of power to be the final arbiter over the right to keep and bear arms via another misapplication of the 14th Amendment which in fact has delivered a wet dream to our progressive gang, which most assuredly will use the power to “regulate” the ownership of firearms into extinction, just as the Heller decision, also thought to be a victory, now does in Washington, D.C. !

And why would shallow thinking gun owners suspect evil is in the making when the McDonald v. Chicago decision has had a friendly face attached to it with the NRA’s support and when the opinion was delivered by none other than Justice Alito who now appears to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, disloyal to his oath of office, and a closet enemy of federalism, our Constitution‘s plan?

[Skipper]

Some people have their minds made up long before any evidence is brought to bear. It looks like, though, the poster on that particular discussion board ought to take another look at the 10th Amendment; not that it'd do any good for them.

[BRohm0103]

I have to agree Skipper & Tom. I dont see this as a conspiracy theory (I actually like conspiracy theories, I find them quite interesting haha). I see this as a victory in that the court said we are beholden to the constitution, which is how it should be. I dont see this decision giving the Federal government more power over the states, I see it saying "Hey states, the consitution applies to all citizens, and the inability to abridge their rights applies to all levels of government." Just my take on it.