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To: OneWingedShark

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62 posted on 01/18/2011 8:30:38 PM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: freedomwarrior998

I never claimed to have any interest in them, now did I?

Besides which, even “enforcing the law” can be questionable.
Consider this, the New Mexico State Constitution says:
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen
to keep and bear arms for security and
defense, for lawful hunting and recreational
use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing
herein shall be held to permit the carrying
of concealed weapons. No municipality
or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident
of the right to keep and bear arms.

Yet there is a State Statute prohibiting the carrying of firearms on University grounds [— full text: http://www.conwaygreene.com/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=FifLink&t=document-frame.htm&l=query&iid=6c1804dd.55b72e94.0.0&q=%5BGroup%20%2730-7-2.4%27%5D —] as well as a law prohibiting the carrying of weapons on carrying a deadly weapon on school premises [—full text: http://www.conwaygreene.com/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=FifLink&t=document-frame.htm&l=query&iid=6c1804dd.55b72e94.0.0&q=%5BGroup%20%2730-7-2.1%27%5D —].

The first statute abridges the right of the Citizen, living in on-campus housing, to both bear AND keep arms (with the possible exception of keeping them in his vehicle; yet there is no guarantee, or legal requirement, that he have a vehicle). So then, if one were to strap on their .45 and openly carry it on campus, and be subsequently arrested, would that arrest be valid?

But let’s go into some even less arguable circumstances. Notice how the State Constitution prohibits a municipality or county from regulating “IN ANY WAY” an incident of the right to keep and bear arms. Now, on both municipal and county courthouses there are posted “NO WEAPONS”, and upon inquisition on whose authority that falls under, I have been informed that it is the judge’s own authority. Now the judge, operating in a municipal [or county] courthouse must needs be an agent of that municipality [or county], no? If he is, then how can he be regulating incidents of the right to keep and bear arms? Furthermore, would the attempt to take your weapons with you (say to jury duty) be lawful? [Or would it be “deemed to be ‘unlawful’” or “contempt of court”?]


64 posted on 01/18/2011 9:12:15 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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