Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Texaggie79
Prohibitional power has never been granted to any level of government, federal/state or local.
Governments are limited to legally 'reasonable' regulatory powers by the basic principles of our constitution.

Yet somehow, they magically have for nuke/bioweapons. And don't say "no those are reasonable regulations" because I can say the exact same thing of hard drugs.

You can 'say' hard drugs compare with CNB materials, but it's ludicrous. -- Your neighbor can have his basement secretly full of 'hard drugs', at no risk to you. CNB materials, extremely high risk, possibly to a whole city/county.

There is no difference constitutionally. [between hard drugs & CNB materials]

Dream on kiddo. -- Or is it cocktail time again that's fueling your imagination?

709 posted on 04/03/2006 6:05:59 PM PDT by tpaine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 708 | View Replies ]


To: tpaine
You can 'say' hard drugs compare with CNB materials, but it's ludicrous. -- Your neighbor can have his basement secretly full of 'hard drugs', at no risk to you. CNB materials, extremely high risk, possibly to a whole city/county.

I just got you buddy. Took a while, but you bit. You have just, unknowingly, admitted that there is no constitutional difference in prohibiting private ownership of nuke/bio weapons and narcotics. You did so because you are trying to argue that those weapons are dangerous to others while narcotics aren't. This is where the community/state comes in. Because why should the entire nation follow exactly what tpaine thinks is too dangerous and what isn't? This is what you are proposing by saying that states cannot prohibit private ownership of narcotics because YOU don't see them as dangerous enough to merit such a regulation. Weather hard drugs are as dangerous to neighbors as those weapons is of no importance here. What is important is who get's to decide if they are or not? States or tpaine?

710 posted on 04/03/2006 6:11:55 PM PDT by Texaggie79 (Did I just say that?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 709 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson