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As if we don't need any more proof that the American CIVIL LIBERTIES Union is a fraud, and another left wing socialist organization that we cannot trust, here is their opinion of OUR Second Amendment right of CIVIL LIBERTY.
You are NOT going to believe it .......
These people will allow the United States Constitution to be trashed unless they are stopped by Congress, the US Court System, or pitchforks and torches.
You are NOT going to believe it .......
They wouldn't understand the Constitution even if it bit them in the A: censored !! They completely ignore the "Right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall NOT be infringed " section of the Second Amendment.http://www.aclu.org/crimjustice/gen/35904res20020304.html
Second Amendment
Updated: 7/8/2008
The Second Amendment provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
ACLU POSITION
Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right. For seven decades, the Supreme Court's 1939 decision in United States v. Miller was widely understood to have endorsed that view.
The Supreme Court has now ruled otherwise. In striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in D.C. v. Heller held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, whether or not associated with a state militia.
The ACLU disagrees with the Supreme Court's conclusion about the nature of the right protected by the Second Amendment. We do not, however, take a position on gun control itself. In our view, neither the possession of guns nor the regulation of guns raises a civil liberties issue.
ANALYSIS
Although ACLU policy cites the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Miller as support for our position on the Second Amendment, our policy was never dependent on Miller. Rather, like all ACLU policies, it reflects the ACLU's own understanding of the Constitution and civil liberties.
Heller takes a different approach than the ACLU has advocated. At the same time, it leaves many unresolved questions, including what firearms are protected by the Second Amendment, what regulations (short of an outright ban) may be upheld, and how that determination will be made.
Those questions will, presumably, be answered over time.
These people will allow the United States Constitution to be trashed unless they are stopped by Congress, the US Court System, or pitchforks and torches.