Equating the specifically enumerated second amendment protection of the right to bear arms, with the esoteric right to porn that must be inferred among the penumbras is about as ridiculous as the earlier comment equating porn and abortion.
In other words, while the power to set community standards is rightly recognized under the 10th Amendment as reserved to the People and to the States, the power to set community standards regarding ownership of firearms is not as it is clearly prohibited by the 2nd Amendment.
Do you think the Feds should inforce "community standards" on all the states like these buzybodies do?
The problem is that people keep thinking they're going to get the federal government to enforce their community's standard on everyone, and the keep ending up with the beltway's standard enforced on them. You'd think sooner or later they'd catch on.
Equating the specifically enumerated second amendment protection of the right to bear arms, with the esoteric right to porn that must be inferred among the penumbras is about as ridiculous as the earlier comment equating porn and abortion.
State & local governments use community standards to justify their supposed 'power to prohibit' - guns, drugs, porn, whatever...
In other words, while the power to set community standards is rightly recognized under the 10th Amendment as reserved to the People and to the States,
You conveniently 'forget' that in the 10th - some powers are prohibited to States..
the power to set community standards regarding ownership of firearms is not as it is clearly prohibited by the 2nd Amendment.
Yep, that is one of the prohibited powers mentioned in the 10th.
I already stated on this thread that I would be loathe to petition the federal government to restrict what people can choose to buy for entertainment. But my citation of the 10th Amendment should have made it clear that the power to establish community standards is CLEARLY reserved to the people and to the states. For the Feds to enforce "community standards" on states would violate the 10th Amendment.
The "Law of the Land" applies to the States, and it is the duty of the feds to enforce it as written.