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To: NittanyLion

the 2A guarantees blanket, "no questions" concealed carry as a constitutional right? the NRA wouldn't dare take that into federal court, and you and I both know why.

I think the system works pretty well now, the states and the voters in those states get to decide - balancing the constitutional protection - if they restrict too far, there is a method of due process to slap them back. if the people decide through their elected representatives to change their laws, they can.

As I recall, didn't Texas have restrictive CCW laws many years ago - and wasn't their some famous case about a mass killer at a restaurant, and no one had a gun to take him down, and that case became the focus of changing the laws? that's the way the system should work.


668 posted on 02/05/2007 7:54:45 PM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview
As I recall, didn't Texas have restrictive CCW laws many years ago - and wasn't their some famous case about a mass killer at a restaurant, and no one had a gun to take him down,

Actually one of the victims who survived, a daughter and I believe an MD, did have a weapon. In the trunk of her car. Useless

676 posted on 02/05/2007 7:56:30 PM PST by SJackson (Let a thousand flowers bloom and let all our rifles be aimed at the occupation, Abu Mazen 1/11/07)
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To: oceanview
the 2A guarantees blanket, "no questions" concealed carry as a constitutional right?

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

It's pretty clear to me.

the NRA wouldn't dare take that into federal court, and you and I both know why.

Yes, because they'd lose. But that doesn't make these laws constitutional anymore than Roe legitimately found a right to privacy in it.

687 posted on 02/05/2007 7:57:47 PM PST by NittanyLion
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