So if infringing on your second amendment rights aids in combating crime and equally compellable case can be made that forgoing our other rights aids in the prosecution of crime. Shall we throw those out as well? I do not think the second amendment reads that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed except when combating crime.
[[I do not think the second amendment reads that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed except when combating crime.]]
Exactly, and that’s precisely what I hope the lawyers for the plaintiffs will argue I nthe supreme court
The most dangerous three words in Constitutional argument are “compelling state interest.” It is translated as compelling government interest, depending on which party is in power. All laws are transient in that the next legislature can change or modify them. How then is the transient interest of NY Democrats able to trump the Constitutional guarantee of the right to bear arms? If such a legal concept continues to grow then the First Amendment will be eviscerated as well. As is happening now in the matter of free exercise of religion taking a seat in the back to abortion and homosexual rights.