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To: Mad Dawgg

>>”Furthermore, as I’ve said, I would have multiple/redundant guarantees on my freedoms/rights than one single point which can be compromised.”
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>Its called the “slippery slope” for a reason.
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>Once you legally give standing to an entity to write Constitutional Law ( say a State Reaffirming the Right to keep and Bear Arms) then you allow lawyers leeway to widen that legal scope and all of the Sudden State Law overrides the Constitution.

...have you EVER heard of the 9th and 10th Amendments?
Virtually all of the signatory States ALREADY HAD State Constitutions! The US Constitution even mentions this in Paragraph 2 of Art 6:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, **ANY THING IN THE CONSTITUTION OR LAWS OF ANY STATE** to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

>This is exactly how we ended up where we are with libtards making places like NYC a haven for armed criminals while citizens who wish to stay out of jail must not protect themselves with firearms.

Really?
Can you show me the portion in the NY [or NJ] Constitution where it explicitly restricts the right to keep and bear arms?
Also, the Constitution[s] do *NOT* grant people rights and cannot therefore be construed to deny the rights of people, they affirm and publicly acknowledge PRE-EXISTING rights in regard to the people. The only ‘rights’ that the Constitution ‘grants’ are those the people allow the Government/


83 posted on 03/23/2011 3:32:20 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
"Can you show me the portion in the NY [or NJ] Constitution where it explicitly restricts the right to keep and bear arms?"

Strawman much? I never said anything about state Constitutions.

You claim reaffirmation By States in the form of writing laws already addressed in the Constitution was a good thing.

I pointed out that allowing such gives legal standing and precedent which is used by Lib lawyers to move us further down the Slippery Slope.

BTW you will note that the Tehth Amendment also denotes that the States have purview over all things that are not denoted in the Constitution. Which also tells us they have no right or standing to write law which is covered by the Constitution. And BTW you treatise on what the Constitution states or affirms is a redundacy and you would have known such IF you had carefully read post 31: "The 2nd Amendment affirms we the citizens have a right to defend ourselves by use of arms."

84 posted on 03/23/2011 3:57:52 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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