On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Greg Broiles wrote: > At 08:59 AM 1/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The great American experiment finally fizzled on December 1, 2003, when > >the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a 9th Federal Circuit > >decision which gutted the Second Amendment. It was a nice run - over two > >hundred years. > > > >As of December 1, 2003, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling, refusing > >to hear an appeal in the case of Silveira vs. Lockyer. That made Silveira > >the law of the land, you see. > > No, that's absolutely incorrect. Every conclusion you reach which depends > on that flawed premise is suspect. > > >Further appeals to Congress and the states are no longer a sure bet. The > >soap box and the ballot box have been throughly tried, is it now time to > >get out the ammo box? > > You're forgetting the jury box.
What good is a Jury when the "judge" can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? > -- > Greg Broiles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way to a wider loyalty, to the love of humanity as a whole. Bah'u'llh's statement is: "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." The Promise of World Peace http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/pdaFiles/pwp.htm