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To: HairOfTheDog
I know the law of the land has long been that felons can't bear arms. There isn't much point in debating whether it should have been... it *is* the law, and not one it would be popular for conservatives to fight against.

That, quite frankly, is a load of crap. We have watched time and time again as programs and laws clearly outside the original intent of the Constitution (and its amendments) are implemented by the feds because it would be too difficult to follow the Constitutional process of amendment. So that's how we get nonsense such as Social Security, where the government collects a surplus and spends it while claiming it is investing it for us - actions that would send a private company into oblivion and its prinicipals to jail. And that's how we get a man hunting subject to a mandatory 15 year sentence - because if the government can operate outide the boundarys of the Constitution, why should it bother staying within the boundaries of common sense?

Beware applauding the end without scrutinizing the means - because the means can be used against YOU someday as well.

199 posted on 04/30/2003 9:46:32 AM PDT by dirtboy (PaleoNeoCon - a neocon who was neocon before neocon was cool...)
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To: dirtboy
I didn't say if it was *correct* or not. I am not a constitutional scholar. I said there are *smarter* places to spend our energies RE: gun rights.
205 posted on 04/30/2003 9:53:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Not all those who wander are lost)
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