Thread: Will the ACLU start defending 2nd amendment rights?
View Single Post
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 07-01-2008
drgoodtrips's Avatar
drgoodtrips drgoodtrips is offline
Moderator
Feel the power of the dark side.

  
Member Since: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago
Posts: 18,801

   
Re: Will the ACLU start defending 2nd amendment rights?
Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesrage View Post
But the ACLU claims to be an organization that stands up for constitutional rights.If you claim to be a group that stands up for constitutional rights you have to stand up for all constitutional rights.
I would imagine that, in principle, they support the second amendment. But only one outfit can realistically take a particular legal case, and I think that, almost invariably, the NRA is going to be more qualified.
__________________
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson
Reply With Quote