[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm fine with requiring a court proceeding to remove someone's right to own a gun. I just don't want to hear any wild tales that it's unconstitutional to do so even WITH a court proceeding.

[Dead Corpse]

Not what I was saying at all. A Court proceeding is the ONLY way to remove someones specificly PROTECTED Rights. Not just making some random Law that hits everyone before any crime is committed. Can't have both a Law AND an Amendment. Want the Law? Get rid of the Amendment.

Say they pass a law saying all schizophrenics are banned from owning firearms. Ok. Now how do they prove who is a schizo? Does everyone require testing to prove they are NOT a schizo? "Before the fact" laws more often end up not working as intended and are the exact kind of slippery slope that has given us 22,000 Federal Gun Laws. Not to mention all the idiot State Laws that are every bit as much of an "infringement" on such a basic human Right.

Try them for actual crimes committed. Incarcerate them. Commit them. It really is the only way as our Constitution is writen. Unless you want more of what the Left is trying to do to this country? No? I didn't think so...

[Chemist_Geek]

I just don't want to hear any wild tales that it's unconstitutional to do so even WITH a court proceeding.

The gun-fundamentalists will surely bleat, "What part of shall not be infringed don't you understand?"

And it is that very attitude which has enabled the gun-control advocates to marginalize firearms rights in the minds of the public.