[demosthenes the elder]

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." -- Thomas Jefferson

Gee! Thomas Jefferson said that, eh? What does that have to do with the homeowner having violated NYS gun laws?

Are you blind, illiterate, stupid, or deliberately disingenuous? Let me spell it out for you: Your State's gun law, had this fellow followed it to the letter, would have restrained him from defending himself and his family from the aggression of another. Jefferson, one of the KEY Founders of this Republic, would have found your State's gun laws obscene and abhorrent. Is it clear for you now, AllSmiles?

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

The phrase "I HAD to follow the letter of the LAW" sounds a little like "I was just following orders," doesn't it? I wonder what some of our colleagues on this forum would have us do when the LAW is passed and signed that we have to inform on political dissidents with whom we come in contact.

Too bad that some of our fellow freepers seem to treat the law as something that can be cavalierly changed at will like a "changing, breathing" thing rather than what is right (constitutional).