Why do 90% of black people vote for Democrats?

[Felch]

Aside from gun laws, there was a ban on mail-order wine in Maryland until earlier this year. How would state laws like this and the gun issue mesh with the Interstate Commerce Clause? Shouldn't it be unlawful for a state to interfere or regulate commerce with other states?

EDIT: I understand that their authority is rooted in licensing powers, but the Constitution ought to take precedence.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw Felch, you are incorrect:

Maryland residents may purchase a rifle or shotgun from a Federally licensed dealer in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)#Maryland

[kentonio]

No.

The court ruled, the majorities will does not matter.

A constitutional amendment might work.

JM

No. The Supreme Court justices are not democratically elected, and the interpretation of the constitution is not democratically decided. It is up to the Supreme Court to reverse its decision.

The majority will always matters in the long term. The majority determines the Congress and the President, who appoint the SC members who judge on that stuff. Get a sizable majority against abortion and over a few decades you'd get a supreme court against abortion and Wade would be toast.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Aside from gun laws, there was a ban on mail-order wine in Maryland until earlier this year. How would state laws like this and the gun issue mesh with the Interstate Commerce Clause? Shouldn't it be unlawful for a state to interfere or regulate commerce with other states?

The 21st Amendment. The 2nd part allows for this.

[Felch]

Maryland restricts what states I can buy guns from. I can go to PA or VA and buy a non-regulated rifle or shotgun, but I'd have to have any handgun or regulated rifle sold to me by a Maryland FFL holder.

Btw Felch, you are incorrect:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law...tate)#Maryland

I can purchase a non-regulated rifle or shotgun. I can not buy a handgun, or regulated rifle.

[Imran Siddiqui]

This kind of thinking pisses me off. So it's not enough for the states to have the right to ban it, you want to prevent a woman from being able to go to a state where she is allowed. Why don't you just ban the poor dears from going out in public without a male escort and wearing a veil.

Ditto. I think if another state allows it, it is no business of the state you reside in to decide what you can do in a neighboring state. FTR, I don't like the federal government mandating such things either.

[Felch]

The 21st Amendment. The 2nd part allows for this.

Gotcha.

[dannubis]

Baby murder

Dead goat ****ers OTOH

[Imran Siddiqui]

I can purchase a non-regulated rifle or shotgun. I can not buy a handgun, or regulated rifle.

Oops, didn't read it that carefully. Sorry.

I wonder if part of it is due to the reading of the 2nd Amendment prior to the Heller decision.

[Jon Miller]

The majority will always matters in the long term. The majority determines the Congress and the President, who appoint the SC members who judge on that stuff. Get a sizable majority against abortion and over a few decades you'd get a supreme court against abortion and Wade would be toast.

Sorry, I will bow to the 'will of the majority' on things like smoking pot.

Murder is murder, whether the majority (or sizable minority) approves it or not.

The was one of my points about you being a hypocrite.

You are against female circumcision, and say that women in the patriarchal countries can not speak up properly.

In the same way baby humans can not speak up properly, but you support killing them.

What do you think about the infanticide/abortion of women in India/etc?

JM

[dannubis]

Unless there isn't a general consensus that it is actually murder.

[kentonio]

Sorry, I will bow to the 'will of the majority' on things like smoking pot.

Murder is murder, whether the majority approves it or not.

JM

The problem is that as long as you phrase the argument like that you will never win. It just polarizes the country and hardens the battle lines. Many, many millions of women have had abortions and they all have families. You're going to tell those women that they are murderers and tell their families that their wife, sister, daughter etc is a murderer? How well do you think that is going to work?

[kentonio]

Unless there isn't a general consensus that it is actually murder.

Plus that of course.

[Felch]

Opposition to fetal personhood is a great example of the banality of evil.

[dannubis]

As is gun ownership.