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To: marktwain
I don't accept such a bill as Constitutional...

Being the 2nd Amendment already covers such.

15 posted on 03/22/2011 7:06:37 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg
I don't accept such a bill as Constitutional...
 
Being the 2nd Amendment already covers such.

Hm, intriguing line of reasoning. However, I will point out that the 2ND Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, does not proscribe any punishment for infractions thereof. {Treason, the only crime defined in the Constitution, does not proscribe a punishment but instead prohibits certain punishments: "corruption of blood" IIRC.}

So, what do you think of US Code Title 18, Part 13, Section 241 which says:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
 
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
 
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Is it Constitutional or not?
29 posted on 03/22/2011 9:47:02 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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