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To: Dead Corpse
SEC. 5. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SAFETY ACT.

I have big problems w/ this amendment.

WHY SHOULD EX-LEO'S BE GIVEN PREFFRECIAL TREATMENT WHNE IT COME TO CARRYING GUNS?

WE CAN SOLVE THIS RESLOVE THIS BY LETTING EVERYONE IN THE STATE CARRY, NOT JUST EX-LEO'S.

384 posted on 02/26/2004 6:40:46 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA
Agreed. It IS however a step in the right direction.
385 posted on 02/26/2004 6:42:23 AM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: OXENinFLA
"WHY SHOULD EX-LEO'S BE GIVEN PREFFRECIAL TREATMENT WHNE IT COME TO CARRYING GUNS?"

Wouldn't that be unconstitutional, it would mean that they are not equal to others.
386 posted on 02/26/2004 6:42:44 AM PST by looscnnn (Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right? -- Megadeth (Peace Sells))
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To: OXENinFLA
WE CAN SOLVE THIS RESLOVE THIS BY LETTING EVERYONE IN THE STATE CARRY, NOT JUST EX-LEO'S.

The second amendment does say "right to keep and bear arms... shall not be infringed". And the fourteenth says "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Thus the immunity from having one's RKBA infringed cannot be abridged by the states, and furthermore the states cannot have one rule for some and a different rule for others, at least not without some due process in there somewhere, such as conviction for a crime. Under the equal protection clause they could ban carry for everyone, but under the "P&I" clause they can't ban or even infringe upon, the carrying (ie. bearing) of arms.

678 posted on 02/26/2004 11:13:10 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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