Aclu?

[NorCal MedTac]

Does the ACLU support the second amendment or just all others? I have no idea so I was hoping for others opinions. That damn Colbert Report always gives me questions.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

The ACLU says they support the Second Amendment...

http://www.aclu.org/police/gen/14523res20020304.html

But they say that the Second Amendment doesn't protect the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

[taloft]

Given the supporting historical opinions of the great men who wrote the Constitution, I find the ACLU opinion on the matter to be fallacious and two-faced.

[bu-bye]

They are group that has turned on the people of this country and supported the scum of the earth. They will fight because they they want to keep their jobs not because its the right thing to do.

I think every one of them should be dragged out to the street and shot. They are a joke and a waste of millions of dollars.

[phish]

ACLU can KMFBA

[jdberger]

Though I'm a card carrying member <flame suit on> there are a number of things that they do that are absolutely stupid. And their stance on the Second Amendment is disingenuous.

We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government. In today's world, that idea is somewhat anachronistic and in any case would require weapons much more powerful than handguns or hunting rifles.

Then A)stand up for the rights of all Americans to own machine guns (repeal the NFA); B)Stand up for our rights to own AWs in this state...
cause a bunch of Chechens and Iraqis armed with handguns and hunting rifles (7.62x39=30/30) are doing a damn decent job against tanks and helicopters.

The national ACLU is neutral on the issue of gun control. We believe that the Constitution contains no barriers to reasonable regulations of gun ownership. If we can license and register cars, we can license and register guns.

They didn't teach Amendment 2.5 where I went to lawschool.
Transportation being necessary to a vibrant economy, the right to keep and drive a car shall not be infringed. <***hats>

If indeed the Second Amendment provides an absolute, constitutional protection for the right to bear arms in order to preserve the power of the people to resist government tyranny, then it must allow individuals to possess bazookas, torpedoes, SCUD missiles and even nuclear warheads, for they, like handguns, rifles and M-16s, are arms. Moreover, it is hard to imagine any serious resistance to the military without such arms.

Asinine logic and ungrounded in fact. See my first example.

well...that's the end of my rant.......

[Muzz]

It really stands for:

American Criminal Liberties Union

[EBWhite]

Unless you are a criminal, liberal, or a minority---

ACLU does not apply to you

[C.G.]

It really stands for:

American Criminal Liberties Union

Another example of a good organization gone awry.

[Omega13device]

They are not perfect, but they are out there protecting our civil rights. You may not always like who they are protecting, but if you're going to protect rights you can't pick and choose. They didn't win a lot of popularity points defending the rights of Nazis in the US, but someone has to do it.

That said, I think their stand on the 2nd Amendment is absurd and overly colored by politics. But I don't agree with every single thing the NRA says either.

[MrTuffPaws]

Ah, all of the love for the ACLU.

I am glad they are around, and they will support anyone who asks. They even offered to help Rush when they tried to subpoena his medical records.

As for their support of the 2nd, it is non-existent, which is a real shame. They hold the same view point as the 39 ruling by the supreme court, which is nothing but hypocrisy to me, but they do well with the other amendments.

[superhondaz50]

as far as i'm concerned the ACLU is a terrorist organization!

[DrjonesUSA]

Ah, the ACLU.

Founded and currently operated by communists.

Fighting to destroy everything about America.


The following sums them up quite nicely:












And here's a good article on them:

http://www.commongoode.homestead.com/ACLU/

[MrTuffPaws]

Ah ha ha ha. Man, you would think the ACLU is made out of baby eating fascist commie lizard people from planet Pro-Gay by reading some of the comments on here.

[DrjonesUSA]

Ah ha ha ha. Man, you would think the ACLU is made out of baby eating fascist commie lizard people from planet Pro-Gay by reading some of the comments on here.

If you think otherwise, you do not know anything about the ACLU.