McConnell: NRA will give marching orders on SCOTUS nominee

[Scooter]

You just finished fawning over the guy for being such a zealous protector of the 2nd Amendment.

Even though you still haven't produced anything to justify the big fat lie you told by accusing Garland of opposing the 2nd Amendment.

But I'm happy to make a deal with you, wes - you produce any statement of Garland's, in a ruling or otherwise, that show he opposes the 2nd Amendment, or admit that you have no basis for having alleged that he does, and I will take down that picture of Mitch McConnell.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Is this what he's banging on about?

Back in 2007, Judge Garland voted to undo a D.C. Circuit court decision striking down one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. The liberal District of Columbia government had passed a ban on individual handgun possession, which even prohibited guns kept in one’s own house for self-defense. A three-judge panel struck down the ban, but Judge Garland wanted to reconsider that ruling. He voted with Judge David Tatel, one of the most liberal judges on that court. As Dave Kopel observed at the time, the “[t]he Tatel and Garland votes were no surprise, since they had earlier signaled their strong hostility to gun owner rights” in a previous case. Had Garland and Tatel won that vote, there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court wouldn’t have had a chance to protect the individual right to bear arms for several more years.

Moreover, in the case mentioned earlier, Garland voted with Tatel to uphold an illegal Clinton-era regulation that created an improvised gun registration requirement. Congress prohibited federal gun registration mandates back in 1968, but as Kopel explained, the Clinton Administration had been “retaining for six months the records of lawful gun buyers from the National Instant Check System.” By storing these records, the federal government was creating an informal gun registry that violated the 1968 law. Worse still, the Clinton program even violated the 1994 law that had created the NICS system in the first place. Congress directly forbade the government from retaining background check records for law abiding citizens. Garland thought all of these regulations were legal, which tells us two things. First, it tells us that he has a very liberal view of gun rights, since he apparently wanted to undo a key court victory protecting them. Second, it tells us that he’s willing to uphold executive actions that violate the rights of gun owners.

http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-mem ... ck-garland

Must the rest of us have this awful Mitch-person inflicted on us just to punish wesw? Please?

[Lord Jim]

My problem with the sigline isn't the content, (I don't care what people want to put in their sigline, whether I agree with it or not...some people don't like the content of my sigline...tough...) it's the size...

If somebody had a sigline that said, "LORD JIM IS A GENIUS" but it took up as much screen space as that McConnell meme, I still wouldn't be crazy about it...

[Scooter]

Better?

[Lord Jim]

Yes, it's certainly an improvement.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I turned those things off.
When someone comments about a sig line I will go to their profile and look....maybe......or maybe not.