MADISON, Wis. —*People living in the United States illegally have a constitutional right to bear arms but are still barred from doing so by a separate law, a federal appeals court ruled.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling Thursday in a case involving Mariano Meza-Rodriguez. His family brought him to the United States from*Mexicoillegally when he was four or five years old, according to the 7th Circuit ruling. Now an adult, he was arrested in 2013 after a bar fight in Milwaukee. Police found a .22-caliber bullet in his shorts pocket.
Federal law prohibits people in the country illegally from possessing guns or ammunition. Meza-Rodriguez argued that the charges should be dismissed because the law infringes on his*Second Amendment*right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa rejected that contention on the broad grounds that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to people in the country illegally. Meza-Rodriguez was ultimately convicted of a felony and deported.
The 7th Circuit panel, however, ruled unanimously Thursday that the term "the people" in the Second Amendment's guarantee that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed also applies to those in the country illegally. The ruling, which applies in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, conflicts with opinions from three other federal appellate courts in recent years that found the Second Amendment doesn't apply to people in the country illegally.
Doesn't the right have the mindset that more guns make the world a better and safer place? How does an individual with a gun that has an official document make us safer, as opposed to an individual with a gun without official documents?Court: Second Amendment Also Covers Those in US Illegally - ABC News
I am curious if those on the left are happy about this, or does it cause some conflict?
Doesn't the right have the mindset that more guns make the world a better and safer place? How does an individual with a gun that has an official document make us safer, as opposed to an individual with a gun without official documents?
Court: Second Amendment Also Covers Those in US Illegally - ABC News
I am curious if those on the left are happy about this, or does it cause some conflict?
Why? How is deporting brown people without official documents going make the U.S. Better in any way?I agree. I still think people that are here illegally should be deported, every one of them.
Why? How is deporting brown people without official documents going make the U.S. Better in any way?
An individual sneaking across the border, busting their ass doing some menial suck job that neither you or I would ever take is displaying the American spirit all the way and tip of the chapeau to them.It has nothing to do with "brown" people. It has to do with people from another country, whether they are from China, Russia or Mexico, that are here without permission from our government. I have to bey the laws. Why do people that don't have permission to be here be allowed to ignore our laws? Just because they are "brown"?
An individual sneaking across the border, busting their ass doing some menial suck job that neither you or I would ever take is displaying the American spirit all the way and tip of the chapeau to them.
The ice cream scoop kid at your local Dairy Queen isn't going to take a job pounding bolts into cattle skulls, especially with the wage that ConAgra foods is willing to pay for performingYou are right. I won't take a job doing menial stuff. I have already done those menial jobs. I am retired. I do my own work now. I just got done splitting 4 cords of firewood today after I cut down 10 trees, limbed them, blocked them and pulled them up the side of a mountain. I didn't hire it out, I did my own remodel. The framing, sheet rock, electrical, plumbing and made and installed the cabinets that I made. I hired out the roof to two friends. My wife didn't want my old ass on the roof. They are both Irish and willing to do what you call menial work. I don't buy your argument. It doesn't wash. I told you my work history earlier today. Take it or leave it. I don't care.
The ice cream scoop kid at your local Dairy Queen isn't going to take a job pounding bolts into cattle skulls, especially with the wage that ConAgra foods is willing to pay for performing
that task, Ever, those days are long gone. Our natives will never do those jobs.
Why would the ice cream scoop kid at Dairy Queen take a job pounding bolts into cattles skulls for the same wage or less than what he's making scooping ice cream at Dairy Queen? Wouldn't you rather scoop ice cream then pound bolts into cattle skulls?I disagree but you keep saying it and I am going to keep disagreeing.
Court: Second Amendment Also Covers Those in US Illegally - ABC News
I am curious if those on the left are happy about this, or does it cause some conflict?
Why would the ice cream scoop kid at Dairy Queen take a job pounding bolts into cattles skulls for the same wage or less than what he's making scooping ice cream at Dairy Queen? Wouldn't you rather scoop ice cream then pound bolts into cattle skulls?
The ice cream scoop kid at your local Dairy Queen isn't going to take a job pounding bolts into cattle skulls, especially with the wage that ConAgra foods is willing to pay for performing
that task, Ever, those days are long gone. Our natives will never do those jobs.
Why? How is deporting brown people without official documents going make the U.S. Better in any way?
Doesn't the right have the mindset that more guns make the world a better and safer place? How does an individual with a gun that has an official document make us safer, as opposed to an individual with a gun without official documents?
The 2nd amendment says the people have the right to keep and bear arms. Unless there is some 18th century definition of the people that meaning only citizens that I do not know about then illegals and other people have the right to keep and bear arms. Those who are caught here illegally should be jailed and then deported to the furthest point away from us in their country.So I am not speaking from a pro-amnesty bias.
Could you be more specific? Which rulings between the US District Court judge and two 7th Circuit Court panels should the left be happy about?
Doesn't the right have the mindset that more guns make the world a better and safer place?
Why? How is deporting brown people without official documents going make the U.S. Better in any way?
An individual sneaking across the border, busting their ass doing some menial suck job that neither you or I would ever take is displaying the American spirit all the way and tip of the chapeau to them.
Court: Second Amendment Also Covers Those in US Illegally - ABC News
I am curious if those on the left are happy about this, or does it cause some conflict?
Doesn't the right have the mindset that more guns make the world a better and safer place? How does an individual with a gun that has an official document make us safer, as opposed to an individual with a gun without official documents?
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