To: demosthenes the elder
What about the guy behind you in line? Does he have a right to NOT be on an airplane with a guy he doesn't know, that has a gun?
To: stuartcr
What about the guy behind you in line? Does he have a right to NOT be on an airplane with a guy he doesn't know, that has a gun? Why? Is he a coward? That falls along the same lines of a "Right to not be offended". Doesn't exist. If you are afraid of others carrying, that is a personal problem. Protect yourself or be a victim. But don't expect the rest of us to follow suit.
308 posted on
04/08/2003 10:13:00 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: stuartcr
What about the guy behind you in line? Does he have a right to NOT be on an airplane with a guy he doesn't know, that has a gun?
Yes, he has that right. He can drive instead.
To: stuartcr
sure he does - he can get off the plane and take Amtrak < /sarcasm >
As a serious reply:
Does such a person have a "right" to insist (that IS what you meant, isn't it?) that *I* not be allowed to exercise my 2ndAm rights while we are both in the checkout line at a supermarket? Yes. Get his whimsy enforced by government mandate? No.
Does such a person have a "right" to insist that *I* not be allowed to exercise my 2ndAm rights while we are both on a bus stuck in traffic on the 285 loop around Atlanta? Yes. Get his whimsy enforced by government mandate? No.
Does such a person have a "right" to insist that *I* not be allowed to exercise my 2ndAm rights while we are both sitting at the counter at a Waffle House? Yes. Get his whimsy enforced by government mandate? No.
That someone has butter for guts is insufficient cause to unleash the government upon my legal exercise of my Constitutional Rights as a citizen of this Republic.
Does this help to clarify the issue for you?
To: stuartcr
"Does he have a right to NOT be on an airplane with a guy he doesn't know, that has a gun?"
He has a right to fly on any private airline that happens to have voluntarily adopted a policy forbidding guns.
His irrational fears are not justification for the government to deny the freedom of airlines to establish their own policies.
370 posted on
04/08/2003 11:26:28 AM PDT by
Atlas Sneezed
("Democracy, whiskey! And sexy!")
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