Comments on: Maybe something good from New Orleans gun confiscation case?

By: SayUncle » Blog Archive » No Blog for you, come back one day!

SayUncle » Blog Archive » No Blog for you, come back one day! — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:56:12 +0000

[...] And the NRA is asking people who’ve had their guns confiscated in New Orleans to call them at (888) 414-6333. Guess they were reading my take on this. [...]

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:00:28 +0000

Egad, you’re right! I was looking all over for where I had seen that, and it turns out it was at your site. I just sort of assumed I saw it on FARK.com or something.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:11:05 +0000

Whaddya mean, admit it?! I advertised it!

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:32:22 +0000

And as you point out, what I expected and what I would have wanted are two different things.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:30:28 +0000

Well, what I expected was the president to put up somebody with some actual, um, experience for Chief Justice. I would have preferred Kennedy, but would have expected him to elevate Scalia or Thomas. Instead, we get the largely unknown commodity of Otto the Autopilot. (C'mon, admit it, Roberts looks just like him!)

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:05:02 +0000

Kevin, I agree. My question was directed to Tom, not to the average reader of this blog. From his perspective, I think the Roberts court was the best of all plausible worlds, if not all possible ones.

By: Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:35:25 +0000

I was hoping for the Thomas Court, but didn’t really expect it.

Now I’m hoping for a female minority appointment to replace O’Connor.

Janice Rogers Brown.

By: robert

robert — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:31:27 +0000

I’d sue from the bottom up. I’d start with the individual police, National Guardsmen, and Fed deputies that were on the scene. Send the message to the footsoldiers and the Fed and LEO muscle that they better think twice about following illegal orders. They took an oath. Burn em.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:17:44 +0000

What did you expect, the Clinton Court?

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:45:08 +0000

“…the Roberts Court…”

*shudder*

I guess it beats “the Scalia Court,” anyway.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:40:17 +0000

Let’s wait a couple of years to see how the Roberts Court shakes out. If Roberts himself turns out to be all he’s cracked up to be and O’Connor’s replacement does, as well, we’re looking at four good guys, four bad guys and a wildcard. I think there’s an excellent chance at least one of the four bad guys, maybe two, will resign between now and 2009. If so, I’d like to see the resulting court take on the Second Amendment with a relatively clean slate.

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:27:03 +0000

I agree completely. After the Kelo case, I breathed a sigh of relief that the court did not take up the 2A.

By: xx y

xx y — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:53:22 +0000

The RKBA people, including the no nutz NRA need to take a stand on this. This isn’t court order confiscation of a lawbreaker. They are taking guns away from people in dangerous areas, just because the feds declared an emergency. You would be outraged if they were confiscating bottled water to force people out, why would confiscation of much needed firearms be any different.

Does anyone know if they are issuing any receipts? Not that it makes any difference.

I’d love the ACLU to support a fourth amendment lawsuit, at least, but that’s not likely to happen. ACLU hypocrites will never get a dime from me.