Posted on 07/08/2010 10:17:19 AM PDT by Paraclete
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A federal judge has ruled an Iowa sheriff violated a man's First Amendment rights when he denied the man's application for a permit to carry a weapon.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett ordered Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber on Wednesday to issue a permit to carry a weapon to Paul Dorr of Ocheyedan.
The ruling states that Dorr had received permits in previous years when he traveled the country to protest outside abortion clinics and had been arrested and that Weber, after becoming sheriff, only denied Dorr's request in 2007 after he began working with a taxpayer's group questioning county spending.
Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution.
Weber declined comment
Or a correspondence course from Tom Woods.
Not so. That's what's so bizarre about the left's slavish devotion to protecting the First Amendment but not the Second. The First Amendment merely says "Congress shall make no law...", while the Second says "...shall not be infringed" without limiting the prohibition on who wasn't allowed to do any infringing. So at least pre-incorporation, the Second should have received MORE deference than the First.
Maybe the reporter should have been ordered to take a basic course on The Constitution as well. Only goes to show how myopic the press is...THEIR right to a free press is inviolable, everybody else not so much.
make sure that you are not .. an illegal alien
You may be right. But I’m curious where you get your informaton? I’ve known illegals with a FOID, and have seen illegals buy guns at Walmart.
I’ve taken a perverse interest in the topic because
a) My life has been saved twice by illegals who practiced conceal carry and as good Samaritans rescued me from murderous citizens ... but that was before there was a FOID.
b) I’ve been active on the illegal alien issue at least since ‘61. Long before they pulled guns on my attackers.
These people can’t even get the Amendments right.
All that is good, but free men don’t ask permission.
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