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Janet, Are you implying our constitution is not withstanding or live governing document at present time (2009) and consider it of dark ages? Educate yourself with Obamas campaign statement: I want my Justice to understand that part of the role of the court is to look out for the people who dont have political power. Obama is wrong, the courts should be blind to the political power of the plaintiffs and should RULE BASED ON THE LAW. The word LAW implies something SOLID and essentially NOT SUBJECT TO OPINION. If Obama thinks that the SC should rule based on public opinion, then he is against the Constitution.

I wish I could say "poof" and every gun every weapon would disappear "poof" gone . I wonder how many would just wet their pants ?? what a bunch of cry babies. "oh They want to take my guns away. wah wahhh wah. you betcha

Andi,

Unfortunately if you support gun ownership, the NRA is the ONLY group that is speaking for you. They may be radical but they have been operating under the "ask for a pound, get an ounce" strategy for so long that the have not choice but to keep asking for the moon and looking like loons.

NRA using rumours to scare people to buy more arms and gullible americans are falling for the scare tactics. typical of the NRA .

now we can't even go to the parks, clubs, streetwalking, etc without fearing some loon sold a gun by the NRA is hanging around.

cops are killing for the slightest provocation because they think we all have guns like them.
way to go americans, we are going down everyday. where are the smart americans leaders who haven't sold his soul away to corperate america!?

Let's hear it for plastic ammunition (that cannot be seen by radar detectors), the right to carry concealed weapons in national parks, and every man's right to his very own machinegun. GO NRA!

I would love to see Sotomayor's and her band of Silly Dimwit Liberals' faces if their houses ever got broken into by robbers carrying weapons. A lot of good your water pistol and "green peace" tactics will do you then!

americans will never learn.
the guns suppliers will always make case for more guns to be sold.
NRA doesn't care about your safety morons, they sell to every psycho without any background check.
americans should please tell me the sense in no background checks before you get a gun.
one day this country will be the most dangerous place to live in and all thanks to the almighty NRA.
what do cops say about gun ownership. to me, the police should be the only ones to sell guns and please guns should not be inherited.
the kid might be crazier than the father. americans think!

Don't care at all what the NRA wants. Don't care what the cigarette industry wants either.

C'mon now you guys... Let's get serious about guns.
The idiots in this country (Australia) used the actions of one bloody fruitcake who flipped his lid, to ban guns in this country.
Do you think the crooks around the place went up and handed in their guns? Not bloody likely. But they now know that good old "john citizen" doesn't have a gun in his home. So they act with impunity and with great violence. They are the only ones with guns.
I think this is about "control" of the populace, more than anything else. How the hell are we able to protect our property and loved ones when we are disarmed? It's just plain ridiculous.
Hang in there you Yanks. If they get your guns off you, they'll be able to run over the top of you. That's what this little push is about.
Wobblyone.

Darth Vadik, CA July 16th, 2009 5:56 pm ET

2nd Amendment – the worst Law ever.

the NRA are a bunch of yellow bellied little men, who think a gun makes up for a lack of their manhood. Fools, there is way greater chance that you'll probably end up shooting one of your family members than somebody trying to break into your trailer to steal your TV with a typewriter on it.

…or you'll probably end up shooting your neighbors wife because you mistook her for a bear.

Fools, all of you

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If the second ammendment is not there, you won't have the FIRST ammendment which all of you love so much! Read why the right to bear arms is the second ammendment and not 9 or 10.

Many lives have been saved because a person has a gun. During LA Riot (Rodney King), people who hated guns called Charlton Heston asking him if they could lend him a gun so they can protect themselves. These are hollywood people who oppose guns.

Those who are against the second ammendment have forgotten something, Without the second ammendment, you do not have the first ammendment. The second ammendment reinforce the first. Learn your own US constitution for goodness sake. Don't be so ignorant and stupid.

@Moderate Democrat What a stupid comment to say that the NRA and the Republicans kill people. Do you have any common sense? Take away knives and cars since they kill people too.

@ Darth Vadick........just because you disagree with the Constitution doesn't mean that everyone who owns a gun is a coward or a redneck. You must be a Pelosi supporter from SF with a small brain.

Yes answer the question all us ex-soldiers and people who have the right to defend their property from all the illegals burglars is not an abstract question.

To Fair is Fair

obama will even outlaw water pistols – some kid might have some fun with a water pistol rather than sitting still to be programmed by obama's youth camps.

We don't care about no stinking NRA has to say about Sotomayor. The NRA sucks and I don't like guns. The NRA is stupid and stupid people in the NRA kill people

"nearly a week into her confirmation hearings, the National Rifle Association issued an official statement Thursday opposing her nomination...

***************** The NRA had that statement written months ago – before Souter even finished his resignation announcement.

They didn't even bother to listen to the discussion: and no ... she wasn't about to render a decision on a case that hasn't even been filed! Heller took 2 years of court debate – the NRA wanted Sotomayer to comment in less than two minutes on a hypothetical!

Dutch ... it's been illegal to own fully automatic weapons since 1923. As for the so-called "Assault" Weapons ban, that law is written so poorly that almost any firearm could be banned underneath it.

Darth Vadik ... The Second Amendment is NOT just about personal protection ... it is about giving the American citizen the ability to stand against his/her own government , if need be. (At least it was when the Bill of Rights was written. 200+ years of military advances .. eh ... not so much now.) But the idea is still the same.

As for gun laws in general ... I just have to ask the Democrats & Liberals one thing ... Criminals do NOT obey the VAST majority of laws on our books now ... WHY do you think another gun law will make a difference to them??

Just asking.

I wondered when the NRA would crawl out from their rock to slam Sotomayor, does the phrase "too little, too late" mean anything to you sloped brow morons?

Sotomayor hasn't said boo about restricting gun rights. These NRA nuts and conservative bozos are trying to make an issue out of nothing. Next up will undoubtedly be gay flag burning by muslim abortiionists bent on terrorizing NASCAR. Grow up, people....

Right Janet like she did in the last anti-discrimination case she looked at. Law promotion can not be with held because of your race. The city well we didn't have enough minorities pass so it doesn't count and you 20 who were getting promoted are not.

Questions for judge Sotomayor:

Do you believe that the Bill of Rights in its entirety, the first ten Amendments to our Constitution, is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth or any other Amendment to the Constitution or by any other binding legal precedent?

Do you accept the finding of the Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that the rights of all citizens of the United States include but are not limited to the following, as redacted from the decision of the Court:

"the right to enter every State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, AND TO KEEP AND CARRY ARMS WHEREVER THEY WENT." [emphasis added]

The Court was of course enumerating rights it deemed could be denied to Black Americans. Today those and other rights must be applied equally to all citizens of the United States.

i can see from all these posts that few people, including the NRA, understand how the judicial system works. the judge decides on a case based on the facts of the case. answereing hypotheticals does not shed any more light on on one's position on an issue because there is no CONTEXT, all you get is a sound byte that gets warped in the media.

I guess that's too much to handle by those that claim they live their lives "knowing right from wrong". maybe you do in your life, but then you are not a supreme court justice either, where the shades of gray of all the decisions we make have national consequences.

If I did not have a 9MM in my home one night several years ago, I would have been raped and killed. So, all you bleeding heart, anti-gun wingnuts need to address the real issues and that is all the criminals that your weak, liberal laws let out of jail on good behavior. That was what my late night visitor was...a serial rapist, just let out for good behavior and decided to troll around my upper middle class neighborhood until he saw me mowing the yard and decided to come back and pay me a visit later that night..He will never bother me or anyone else again. Law abiding citizens wouldn't feel the need to arm themselves if our government and judicial system did their jobs. But then that wouldn't be politically correct, would it??

It seems as if the anti-2nd amendment comments are so off the wall that I have to wonder if they are being made just to incite anger???
Can anyone on the anti2 side tell me why the Second Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights? I would like to hear the answer to that please.

One other thing, why does the liberal left always resort to name calling? Take note of that, conservatives are always idiots, fools, stupid, etc.
I don't see it being reciprocated however. Just an interesting observation.

Right to self defense? What gun-nuts fail to remember, or admit, is that President Reagan was shot while surrounded by the best trained, heavily armed and professional body guards in the world. As was a Pope.

And while the NRA is WHINING about rights, why don't they EVER talk about responsibility? The first day of every hunting season my mother's country neighbors lose livestock and pets to "hunters" who bought their beer, bullets and hunting licenses at the same corner store. But, somehow, they have the "right" to own firearms.

This is typical of the reasons why I am no longer a member of the NRA. She clearly stated that she is "completely open minded" about the right to bear arms.

What I see in many of these posts is the response of people who have relegated themselves to nothing more than sheep when it comes to the ravings of LaPierre and Cox.

PLEASE, people, remember that these guys are extremely highly paid "EMPLOYEES" of the NRA. Their interest here is (in all probablity) not the same as those who are really concerned about their rights. These guys are in it for the MONEY!
Do you have "full faith" the CEOs of the Banks?
Do you have "full faith" in mortgage brokers?"
Get REAL! This is their BUSINESS for crying out loud and the more they can keep you stirred up the more money they will make. It's just that simple.
While I think about it, when you go to your local gun shop and they fill you with all the same rhetoric as these two, just remember how much money their making from the guns they scare you into buying. This is a brilliant marketing scam that too many people are falling for.

I AM a multiple gun owner and I'm sick of all the fear mongering that is based on nothing more than increased profit from the willingness of people who should know better.

Too late, as we speak someone is packing her things to move to Washington, D.C.

GOPers get over yourselves and take your meds.

P.S. The election is over, stop sulking.

I have to say all the crazy anti-gun people just perpetuate the problem. If everyone would try to moderate what they say we would not have guns and ammo sales at an all time high. There is such a huge divide in this country that when one side says they hate it the other side decides they have to love and support it financially.

I am so tired of this gun nut lobby! If one wants to hunt...who cares, seriously. Hunting is not something that I would engage in, but if one gets some twisted charge out of killing animals, well, that's his/her issue. But, handguns and military assault type weapons need to go. The only purpose they serve is to kill and were never included as a "right" under the Second Amendment. I believe our founding fathers were referring tomuskats.

Fair is Fair..........that argument is so old and useless. I've heard so many people use that same argument to convince me that handgun ownership is a good thing but, I will never change my mind. My dog alerts me about possibilities of strange activity and my bat is right behind my door!

what a nonsense...they are targeting...absolutely ridiculous...ok...it is lobbying...out of brain, minds...let us nominate...if it were different would they do?????just don't care, nominate this lady...she is qualified...I am law grad, and have masters in law...not a lay man...ok...I am going through news everyday...ok she is more qualified...stop politics..here..for judicial division..res ipso loquitar...thing speaks for itself...ok, she is qualified...ok

you say the nra and gun nuts kill people and the nra is to blaim for the school shootings so the idea is to take my guns away but when the guns are taken away from the ones who use them correctly what's going to happen when the gangsters and criminals get guns illegally and break in your home or rob you in the streets? america needs to wake up and see the felons and gang bangers are to blaim for the gun violance.

seebofubar is the one that is without a doubt FUBAR. No bloody brain, and just poor enough to afford a lousy computer to spread his ignorance! I support the 2nd Amendment and keep fresh ammunition in the 160 round clips I own. I enjoy practice target shooting but will never regain the skills I once had as a US government sniper.

Its fine to own a gun, so long as you are mentally capable of handeling the responsibility. You want a gun, fine, but lets first make sure you arent nuts. Lets have more effective background checks, and not wine when we have to wait a few weeks to get out gun. We dont need nut cases shooting up public buildings, supermarkets, schools or national monuments.

This woman is PERFECT for America. I watched a lot of her "grilled" by the Repugs and I thought she handled herself very well. I actually watched this session (which many of you idiots probably didn't) and she refused to be put on the spot. Her answer, the correct one, is that each case must be decided on the BASIS OF LAW. I agree w/Larry...guns for protection or hunting is one thing, but just listen to your nightly news. How many people are killed by guns every day in your neighborhood (bad drug deals, murder, etc.). I will protect my family if they are in danger, but there is no need for an M-16. Sotomayor is FABULOUS!

Hey Gator! You small minded simpleton- -You guarantee none of your guns will be used to comitt a crime? Oh, yeah – - -unless another
small minded simpleton like yourself blows his way into your house,
blows you away and takes them from ya. Then blows away a few other people while trying to get away until someone blows him away.
How many other morons think the way you do?

Darth Vadik – So if someone breaks into you home and tries to harm you and your family with a firearm they gained illegally regardless of gun laws..... you are content with not being able to defend yourself and watching you or your family suffer?

To "Fair is fair.

I, for instance own no gun. I do think a homeowner has a right to one though. Not an assault weapon or an RPG though. Myself, I do have two large dogs that weigh over 90 lbs each who would be far better than a gun to prevent someone breaking into my house in the first place.

My second line of defense is to have my wife lock herself in the bathroom, where her cell phone is at night and call 911.

If I should have to deal with anyone after the first two actions, I have my trusty baseball bat and a large fillet knife close by. I'll take my chances that the bad guys will pick on someone else.

It's high time the NRA stopped having so much influence in U.S. policy. Americans need to wake up. The NRA actually represents powerful gun manufacturers and distributors who are supplying the needs of supversive groups and criminals around the world, while they cynically claim to represent the rights of ordinary citizens. Government law enforcement agencies south of the border are justifiably sore at the United States for doing so little to curb the demand for drugs in this country and for not having sensible, comprehensive gun control legislation on the federal level. The Mexican drug cartels have armed themselves to the teeth with weapons puchased from the more than six thousand gun shops and gun shows within 100 miles of the U.S. border. That includes military weapons such as assault rifles and bazookas that no honest citizen should have the need to own. Enough is enough! It's time for realistic gun control that will not penalize the average citizen. No one is suggesting we take away your hunting rifle. But the 275 million handguns already in this country, virtually one for every man, woman and child in the U.S., are ticking time bombs with the potential to kill and maim for decades.

"So suppose someone breaks into your home and threatens you with physical harm. What are you going to defend yourself with? A water pistol?"

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This isn't about the right to defend oneself. It's about the NRA and their ridiculous stretching of the 2nd ammendment. Do you really need to own an armor piercing automatic assault rifle, or be allowed to carry firearms into a public bar, to "stop an intruder in your home"?

I think there should be a law that bans NRA members - only - from owning guns. Everybody else could still own 'em. The rationale would be that members of the NRA don't have enough intelligence to own a gun.

"As a hunter, competition shooter and a responsible American, I can assure you none of my weapons will ever be used to commit a crime or harm anyone unless it is a life threatening situation with no other recourse. There are thousands of gun owners who are the backbone of this country that are not gun nuts as some of you would describe them.Yet when some fruitcake cracks and shoots someone, all the anti gun freaks start yelling bring back the assault weapons ban or ban all handguns."

Then why don't you support ruling to keep guns out of the hands of these bad people and only allow responsible ones such as yourself access to these weapons? I don't doubt that there are thousands of responsible gun owners that make up this country, but not all people are as responsible as you are, you know.

I own a gun store in Colorado and I have had the best 12 months ever. Obama has been the best thing for our business in the last 20 years. I am sure all the Sotomayor tomfoolery will help. A fellow gun store owner in Dallas in April received an order 90000 rounds for assault rifles that sold in one week. All you hater are helping business.

How is it contentious??? the Judge ruled on a case involving martial arts weapons on a specific and targeted ban to carry them; kids are not allow to carry guns inside schools, they are not to carry them in federal buildings, the established precendent does show clear and specific applications where the 2nd amendment has been challenged, just as all other amedments, but the fundamental right remains... that is why we have courts and why we are able (thanks to the brave men and women that have died for this country) to file a fair complaint when we feel our rights have been violated. so it appears that the NRA and the RNC want an activist judge that will not be open to look at the law and assest facts; they seem to want someone that will tell the world the second amedment can only be interpreded one way; so they must be o.k. with ANY person owning a gun, criminal, junkie, student, perhaps even foreign... I do not advicate a nation wide ban; but surely there most me somewhere we can all agree and if not at least allow the legislature and the courts to help us navigate options... that is how the system works...

As a sportshooter and a person who wants to protect my family, I fully support the right to bear arms when necessary.

However, your right to bear arms does not trump my right (or anybody else's) to not be shot.

The NRA doesn't get that. Rather than restrict dangerous weapons in areas where they are a problem, or step up the requirements and background checks for getting a gun, they would rather allow anyone and everyone applicable to get their hands on these weapons, and only punish them after they've misused them.

How many more innocent people need to be shot before they realize that an ounce of prevention beforehand is worth more than a ton of punishment afterward?

The NRA isn't happy unless everybody constantly has a gun aimed at everybody else…. this is what they consider a "safe America."

We are losing our guns!!!
We are losing our guns!!!
The sky is falling!!!!
The sky is falling!!!!
The moon is made of cheese!!!!
The moon is made of cheese!!!!

I wish these alarmists would get over themselves.
I am a liberal AND a gun owner and I'm not sweating anything.

Okay is it me? First Sessions says "You voted against a judgement and another judge voted for and he is Puerto Rican.'. WTH is that about?

Second Ensign's buddy says 'You got some splainin' to do.'. WTH is that about?

Third Sessions again, 'We're gonna do the crack cocaine thing'. WTH is that about?

The Republicans are so racist they can't help themselves. Obama is a genius....we all get a good look at these racist and chauvenistic crackers for what they are. They must all go to the C Street Church.

I am tired of the cries from poor wittle White men who have gotten away with murder literally. Poor thangs!
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NRA doesn't care if a gun is in the end of kids, or anyone with mental illness, because for the nra there is no exception to the 2nd amendment, who care when police officer are kills freely by some nuts

Slowhand – She has 'danced around' every 'gotcha' question thrown by GOPers. And every time she tried to show how and why she did or did not what she did in her rulings, they weren't interested. You may remember, or check it in Youtube, that Alito did had to act the same way when he passed throught the same situation.
Fair is Fair – Supposing that I found myself in the baseless and fearmongering 'gotcha' that you described to Janet I would call 911 and if I found that I had to fight the person, I would do it with whatever I could use as a weapon (baseball or hockey bats are the most common in such cases).
But call 911 would be a first.
And let me make the same question for you, if someone (that in any other country would not have the right to have a gun with him) invaded your house and threatened you with his/her gun already loaded and in his/her hand. Would you go suicidal and try to reach for your own gun?

DID the NRA and RCA find (CHENEY) or Lou Dobbs and Bill Bennett find themselves.... oh i forgot , i just dont like those clowns, Sonia Sotomayor will be comfirmed

May I just say, I support a citizen's right to own a handgun or rifle, but I could care less what the NRA has to say. They don't speak for me.

LaPierre, why don't you go out on a long hunt and cool off. Better yet, go on a fishing trip.

Sotomayor has proven to be one of the most thoughtful and articulate nominees I have seen in my 60 years. I like to hunt, but I sure don't feel comfortable with someone like you running around with a loaded rifle, be it a .22 or an AK-47. That scares me more than anything this woman has said this week.

That's funny. Judge Roberts feels the right to free speech does not extend to "pro marijuanna "declarations. And the republicans have said over and over that our rights can be suspended during times of war.
They also believe equality should only be extended to heterosexuals.

But you tell them the 2nd is questionable in its wording (and it is VERY questionable in its wording) and all of the sudden the bill of rights is untouchable.

Typical republican foolishness.You can't have it both was republicans.

If you can not answer the question,whether you believe the constitution gives an individual the fundamental right ,to defend your self and family with a firearm,then you have no right being a judge..

The (NRA) and (RNC) is the same word almost spell backwards. Am so glad the day has come that ,it does matter anymore ,who they oppose .... Hey Cheney ,where are you , your NRA member, Welcome Judge Sotomayor...... Who cares ,who those (NOTHINGS) oppose. CNN should oppose Lou Dobbs,Bill Bennett, they have shot themselves in foot to many times................

You can have all the guns you want.When the time comes to take them the U.N will.

Hee hee hee. We're going to take your guns away from you! Hee hee hee.

Larry July 16th, 2009 5:43 pm ET

The right to bear arms is in the Constitution. Our forefathers didn't have automatic weapons, and that is a big part of the controversy.

You don't use automatic weapons to hunt, and you don't need them for self-defense, unless you're facing down an army.
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Larry... there is some wisdom in what you say, May I counter with an analogy?

When the federal income tax was instituted, the rate was around 1% and affected about 1% of the population. By 1980, the top marginal rate was 78% on a much broader population.

It's called a slippery slope. Once the door is opened, all bets are off. You can't unring a bell.

decades ago in Gideon v Wainwright, the SCOTUS said states must abide by the Bill of Rights. A couple of years ago, Sotomayor said the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to states.

She is obviously not qualified to sit on the SCOTUS if she thinks states can over-ride the Bill of Rights

Please allow Sarah Palin to do what she do best HUNT, FISH she can not education herself by 2012 to lead this country anyplace. I truly know some 30 years olds that I think can do a better job. NO JOKE

The question is being twisted.

She was not asked whether or not Americans have a right to bear arms.

She was asked about a narrow hypothetical ruling

She answered in much the same way Roberts and Alito answered similar questions – its not appropriate to pre-judge every narrow decision!

LKM,
I could care less about the NRA stuff but Dr./Senator Coburn could take the rest of his term off and still win another term. He is a class act and the State of Oklahoma loves him. I am not from Oklahoma but I will continue to send him campaign $ until he decides not to run.

Darth Vadik- you clearly belong in California.

Doesn't matter to me what the law is- I will keep my weapons and the ammo for those weapons. It makes no difference what Washington or my state capitol has to say about it.

Easy enough. Confirm who you like, elect who you like.

They will never get our guns in Texas. If they do, it will be the buisness end.

Janet –

So suppose someone breaks into your home and threatens you with physical harm. What are you going to defend yourself with? A water pistol?

There's an old saying about someone of little wit – "So-and-so would bring a knife to a gunfight".

What if the right to bear arms meant that you just got to keep your arms with you (arms meaning limbs)?

2nd Amendment – the worst Law ever.

the NRA are a bunch of yellow bellied little men, who think a gun makes up for a lack of their manhood. Fools, there is way greater chance that you'll probably end up shooting one of your family members than somebody trying to break into your trailer to steal your TV with a typewriter on it.

...or you'll probably end up shooting your neighbors wife because you mistook her for a bear.

Fools, all of you.

You can tell from her actions that she is anti gun. As a hunter, competition shooter and a responsible American, I can assure you none of my weapons will ever be used to commit a crime or harm anyone unless it is a life threatening situation with no other recourse. There are thousands of gun owners who are the backbone of this country that are not gun nuts as some of you would describe them.Yet when some fruitcake cracks and shoots someone, all the anti gun freaks start yelling bring back the assault weapons ban or ban all handguns. A .22 caliber is just as deadly as a an AR15 when used properly.

The day that the government outlaws guns is the day that your childrens future is doomed. This woman is a train wreck. When 60% of here rullings have been overturned by higher courts and 4 out of 5 of here rullings that have made it to the Supreme Court have been over rulled, doesn't that tell you something? She's a bad judge.

But the "right to bear arms" and the right to self defense are not necessarily the same thing. You can defend yourself in other ways and you can have a gun just because you like having guns – as in the case of a replica or a target shooting pistol – so the two are not mutually exclusive. Anyway, Judge Sotomayor's personal beliefs about the second amendment are not relative to her ability to judge a case. As she has been pointing out to all the bozo republican senators that are trying to goad her into making some extreme policy/belief statement, judges look at the specific rules of the case before them and make rulings based on LAW, not on personal beliefs. Persoanl beliefs should not be a litmus test for judges. Well at least that's how they are supposed to do it. The conservative activist judges currently on the SC that are trying to take the law back to the dark ages seem to have forgotten that.

@ Larry

You hit the nail on the head! Took the words right out of my mouth.

Who cares about the NRA, an organization apt to put guns in every home in America. Sure, I an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, but these people are just ughhhh.......NRA can stick their opinion where the sun dosen't shine.

Why are these loons still talking so much about guns. Don't they know this is the number killing weapons in the U.S. Bunch of idiots!!!!

The right to bear arms is in the Constitution. Our forefathers didn't have automatic weapons, and that is a big part of the controversy.

You don't use automatic weapons to hunt, and you don't need them for self-defense, unless you're facing down an army.

This woman is wrong for the country, she has danced around every major question that has been put to her without telling her true beliefs.She's just like obama, will say anything to get in office, then her true colors will shine. Say what you believe in and stand by it. We have enough weak freaks in office now. I don't belong to the NRA but I am thinking about it, looks like they are the only ones that will stand up for our constitutional rights against the Bradys, million mom march and all the other anti gun idiots running around.

I wonder if the judge walks the streets of DC without an armed escort?

The announcement came the same day the RNC released a new Web video showing an exchange between Sotomayor and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn over the "right to self-defense." Sotomayor told the Oklahoma senator that she didn't know if "that legal question has been ever presented" and called it an "abstract question."

The question was indeed abstract–Coburn was trying to get Sotomayor to say that people have the right to self defense, but what he meant was do people have a right to carry a firearm.

The NRA's propaganda arm immediately took what she did say and concluded she is anti-2nd amendment which is far from what she did say. The NRA is radical, Sotomayor is not. Coburn had to drill her on gun rights if he wanted any chance of re-election. End of story.

Thank you Allah for the NRA.

I guess the NRA doesn't care that guns kill. Have they forgotten the massacres at Columbine, Va Tech, today in New Jersey.

It's the National RIFLE Association.

It's not the National HANDGUN/Shotgun/Assault Rifle Association.

I love guns, but these idiots act like the government is going to strip away their carrying permit. The Assault Weapons Ban needs to be brought back.

Typical knee jerk (and I do mean jerk) reaction from these two groups. What a bunch of pansies!

Let's not forget:
Guns don't kill people....the NRA and the GOP kill people.

side note: don't forget to take your tin foil hats off before sitting down to eat tonight, all you gun nuts that think we are out to take your guns. We're too busy trying to protect our "Right to Privacy" that your heroe's Bush and Cheney took from everyone. (And for the record: no, it's not ok that Obama is still using the policy).

Talk about a waste of time...it's got about the same chance of success as Ron Paul's campaign to end the income tax...

May I just say, I support a citizen's right to own a handgun or rifle, but I could care less what the NRA has to say. They don't speak for me.

Oh shut up! She will be confirmed, and you will be just fine.

They are selling after the market.,

Its over already. Lets move on. People are not going to lose their carry permit sover Sotomayor being on the SCOTUS. Gun & ammo sales are up and thats about the only thing Obama has done for the economy.