Monday, July 7, 2008

"Survey says..."

H/T to Turk Turon:
The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment as a collective right. Therefore, we disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller. While the decision is a significant and historic reinterpretation of the right to keep and bear arms, the decision leaves many important questions unanswered that will have to be resolved in future litigation, including what regulations are permissible, and which weapons are embraced by the Second Amendment right that the Court has now recognized.

That's right, the official opinion of the American Civil Liberties Union is that
The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment as a collective right.
At the time I am writing this there are 780 comments. A few support the ACLU. A few more are neutral. (At the time Joe Huffman blogged about it--5:15 AM, Sunday July 6th--there were 668 comments, of which Mr. Huffman estimated the score was 2 for, 1 neutral, and 665 against.)

Many of the posts point out the hypocrisy of the ACLU supporting individual rights' interpretations for 9 out of 10 Amendments.

A lot of them are, um, disrespectful of the folks who run the ACLU.

I liked this one:
Q: How does an ACLU Lawyer count to ten?
A: 1, 3, 4, 5...
Others point out that the NRA does, in fact, support all 10 Amendments--actively so in the case(s) of the 1st and 5th--whereas the ACLU only seems interested in speaking up for Nazis, terrorists, and pedophiles.

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