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To: pallis
The real point of my point, so to speak, is that in any human endeavor, cultural, political, education, business, marriage, family, banking, religion and so forth, the values that come out are the values we put in. This nonsense won’t stop with homosexual marriage, and the existing laws won’t matter.

As painful as it is to contemplate, I think our laws already don't matter.
Already statutes which are contrary to the [State] Constitution (a) exist, and (b) are rather unchallengable.

As a practical consideration/example, consider NMSA 30-7-2.4 which makes it a crime for a university student to keep [or bear] a firearm on student housing. Contrast that with the following:

Art II, Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.]

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

Any time I brought the issue up with an official I got either redirected or dismissed out-of-hand; I never got a straight answer.
Furthermore, when I would bring up the issue there were a fair amount of people who would dismiss what I'd say on grounds of safety or common-sense or [federal] regulation, though I think most people were simply unaware that there could be such a conflict (perhaps even unaware that there are State Constitutions).

114 posted on 06/05/2012 10:41:29 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

I remember when you brought this subject up here. It made me think about my experiences. I ignore rules that put me in jeopardy, and I always carried a firearm to campus, if not on campus. I did my grad work at Highlands, and they were lax about enforcing firearm rules, at least they were back then. I had gone there from Western, where the rule was to turn guns over to campus police upon entering the campus. I never complied. I asked several people at Highlands what the rule was, and they told me the 2nd Amendment.


120 posted on 06/06/2012 9:28:04 AM PDT by pallis
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