Posted on 11/09/2007 3:17:09 AM PST by cbkaty
So anyone of any age or criminal background can walk in to any sporting goods store and buy a shotgun, anywhere in CA?
Who will enforce the new law? No one! Most of the military are related to the majority of gun holders. Will a member of the military take the guns from their brothers, fathers, sisters, et al?
BTW, I personally feel that the 2nd A. will remain as it is.
I'd love to get my hands on a AA-12. I'd buy a 12ga reloader rig just so I could afford to keep it fed. ;-)
"A well-regulated Militia ... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Gun-control advocates say this means that the government can limit firearms ownership as part of its power to regulate the militia.So, "well-regulated" redefines "shall not be infringed" to mean "shall not be infringed unless the govt says so."
Depends. If she's running against Rootie ("My positions are mostly the same as Mrs Clinton's) Julie Annie I won't expect to see many real conservatives show up. Not enough difference between them to get excited about.
Na I've read his stuff for years. Hard line authoritarian statist and jackboot licker par excellance. Like his leftist friends he isn't interesed in learning from debates, but rather just spouting his views over and over again. No lie to obvious no distortion to great as long as it serves his purpose. His drivel reminds me of the egregious editorial page editor of the Atlanta Fish Wrapper Cynthia Tucker. Hammer the truth until it's unrecognizable to fit your agenda.
WRONG!! There will never be any shortage of JBTs to enforce anti-gun laws. Look at New Orleans. Look at any story where the government "confiscated" an "arsenal" They're never a bit shy about it. It will be your local "protect and serve" extort and intimidate boys who will be on you faster than a rooster on a june bug.
I didn’t think so. But I expected as much, considering that RP’s take one the 2A seems to be that as long as someone, somewhere can still legally own a firearm of some kind, then our right to keep and bear arms hasn’t really been infringed.
Agreed. “Working with him” is like herding cats.
Read your own post again. Something they “BROADCASTED.” They can print handbills or say anything they want, e.g. at a press conference. They can distribute handbills on street corners, or shout from a soapbox. But they are limited as to what they may SEND OVER THE AIRWAVES - “broadcast”. It’s not a First Amendment issue. It’s a terms of use of the airwaves issue - “We give you exclusive rights to broadcast on this frequency in this area, and you agree you won’t use the following or similiar words: .... We will go after anyone else who transmits on your frequency, and we will come after you if you do broadcast such things. Agreed? Sign here.” Not the First Amendment at all.
Thanks for trying, though.
McCain Feingold
where courts have lost the courage to oppose
Kelo
Ahhhhhh I see! You're correct that is a cogent and well stated argument. Actually I got a lot of this info from my own law school experience back in the late 1980s. The Profs then were just as antigun as they are now. Thanks for the clarification. Well done! Now I have something else to discuss with my American Government students.
68 here today in Alabama. 70 something tomorrow. Even though we have had a couple of freezing a.m.’s the past couple of days. Nice days though.
A lot of us believe we shouldn’t have to get a CCW. We have a right to be armed, I shouldn’t have to get a permit to conceal it.
I’ll read this later. In the meantime, it reminds me. I had my car serviced the other day and I need to put my handgun back in my glove compartment.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn had a different point of view:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand.-- The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
Sometimes I just can’t help myself!
Yeah, BLOPT!
I hear you, and have the same problem from time to time.
Though in this case, it may not be one any longer. See post 400.
‘So, “well-regulated” redefines “shall not be infringed” to mean “shall not be infringed unless the govt says so.”’
No. It simply declares that a well-regulated MILITIA is a necessity in a free country and that the rights of the PEOPLE to bear arms should not be infringed upon.
Basically, it says the military is necessary and it’s existence does not relieve the people of their right to keep and use arms.
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