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To: itsahoot

I tend to bow to Scalia on a lot of things because I respected him so much.

The blanket right to keep and bear arms likely does have a limit, so I don’t necessarily think he is wrong there.

I always like to find extremes that few people will argue on, so I can stake out a length of philosophical line, then the brass tacks of where on the length of that line a cleavage point between “yes” and “no” becomes the focus of arguments.

Most people would agree that a violent, unstable schizophrenic who murdered a family of six should not have weapons, so there is a limit at that end.

Our problem is that people on the Left think that rational, law-abiding people shouldn’t own guns either. So, in any discussion with them, we cannot get them to agree even on the length of that philosophical line on the other end.


66 posted on 04/10/2018 12:29:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel
Most people would agree that a violent, unstable schizophrenic who murdered a family of six should not have weapons, so there is a limit at that end.

That is only an issue if you think he should be free and alive rather than dead or in jail.

He was dead wrong on the flag issue and I can find nothing good in the decision. Otherwise he was very good on protecting he Constitution. You might have noticed that a minority of people in this country would agree that Scalia was a good Justice and that is a sad thing.

69 posted on 04/10/2018 2:43:03 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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