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To: GovernmentShrinker
Actually, that logic doesn't hunt. You have EVERY Right to shout "Fire" in a theater, if the theater is on FIRE.

Are you now suggesting that a priori restraint of our Rights on Second Amendment issues is just peachy?

Either charge us all with crimes that would entail the restriction of our 2A Rights as punishement, or get the hell out of our way.

68 posted on 01/07/2005 11:43:39 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Where did I endorse "a priori restraint" on RKBA? Just because I recognize that common sense precludes an absolutely unrestricted RKBA, does not mean that I approve of background checks, registration schemes, purchases-per-month limits, or anything else that restricts the rights of law-abiding citizens. Someone who shouts "Fire!" in a crowded theater is punished AFTER doing so; no one has suggested gagging all theater-goers before they enter the theater, in order to prevent such dangerous exclamations. However, if we take preposterous positions, such as holding that a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic cannot be prohibited from legally possessing a gun, we'll lose this very important battle.


90 posted on 01/07/2005 12:28:45 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Dead Corpse
You have EVERY Right to shout "Fire" in a theater, if the theater is on FIRE

And the government does not have the power to tape your mouth shut because you might shout fire when there was no fire. Of course if they did, then you couldn't shout fire when there was a fire either. That would be completely analagous to gun laws.

169 posted on 01/07/2005 5:52:36 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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