Entitled? Is the 2nd Amendment part of the Bill of Entitlements?
>Pot is a federally proscribed drug, so possession and use negates the right to own a firearm.
Is this before a trial? Or should we just scrap the fourth & sixth amendments?
>Simple and well known, and predictable to anyone who has ever thought about the realities of sucking pot behind a "prescription."
I'm not a pot-smoker, never appealed to me, but it is absolutely intolerable what the "Ware on Drugs" has don (and is doing) to the Bill of Rights as-written and as-applied.
You know, I don’t mind arguing with other FReepers about the drug war. I think there’s room for disagreement on the issue, and I can agree to disagree about it, even though I have a strong opinion.
However, when I see a thread like this where some FReepers are all too willing to forget the basic conservative principles about the Constitution just because they don’t like “those damned hippies”, it really saddens me.
Rights are rights, and when it comes to the big ones, like self-defense, we don’t derive them from the government, so there is no legitimate action the government can do to take them away. Any action that deprives us of such a right is by default an illegitimate use of government power. We can’t let ourselves forget that due to our subjective feelings, or we are no better than liberals.