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I do not want to restrict the Second Amendment, only enact the regulations it explictly allows. Joel Send a noteboard - 26/12/2012 08:50:09 PM
Seems an asinine way to legislate, but if that is the only way to get where we need to go, we are indeed stuck with it.

EDIT: Oh, and bear in mind that if "activist" judges had not reverse incorporated the Fifth Amendments Due Process Clause on the states via the Fourteenth EVERY state COULD ban ALL guns, because the Second Amendment would only apply to the FEDERAL government.

if you can't find enough people to agree with you and pass an amendment, TOUGH.

Federal Constitution trumps state and local law, always has, always will (especially since the Civil War).

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (Amendment X)

Until the Fourteenth Amendment made the Bill of Rights incumbent on the states, it was not, and even then it took a court ruling to do so. The recent ruling states cannot ban guns rests ENTIRELY on Reverse Incorporation of the Bill of Rights on states via the Fourteenth Amendment; under strict constructionism, all states could ignore the federal bill of rights, because it would only apply to the federal government. Pick a horse and ride it.
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When guns are a big national issue, how do reporters & pundits not know facts about them? - 21/12/2012 05:33:14 PM 1532 Views
You don't hunt by walking into a classroom and shooting 20 deer - 21/12/2012 05:56:16 PM 985 Views
You're actually not right on that one - 21/12/2012 07:49:53 PM 913 Views
That wasn't the point I was making - 21/12/2012 09:49:40 PM 860 Views
You should probably clarify it then - 21/12/2012 10:47:26 PM 1016 Views
His post was perfectly clear. Yours seemed like a response to an entirely different post. - 21/12/2012 10:53:39 PM 1171 Views
Explain that remark, it is not obvious to me *NM* - 21/12/2012 11:00:10 PM 527 Views
I think - 21/12/2012 11:13:34 PM 847 Views
Thats' easy, there is simply no such thing as a 'hunting rifle' - 21/12/2012 11:17:41 PM 856 Views
I'd say the expert gunsmith - 21/12/2012 11:28:02 PM 897 Views
I thought I was being perfectly clear. - 21/12/2012 10:57:35 PM 863 Views
Re: I thought I was being perfectly clear. - 21/12/2012 11:25:04 PM 915 Views
Oh I wasn't commenting on the standard of people here - 21/12/2012 11:29:36 PM 834 Views
you're largely correct, which is why we need stronger laws on ownership not guns per se - 21/12/2012 09:39:14 PM 825 Views
I can't think of a better reason than self defense - 21/12/2012 10:33:26 PM 882 Views
He is right about Australia - 21/12/2012 10:46:27 PM 862 Views
No kidding - 21/12/2012 10:59:28 PM 849 Views
If you knew all that - 21/12/2012 11:02:38 PM 874 Views
I think you are on the right track, but to the wrong destination; "lethal weapon" is redundant. - 21/12/2012 11:05:29 PM 856 Views
My read is that the 2nd Amendment not only allows, but mandates, cop-killer bullets. - 22/12/2012 12:45:04 AM 897 Views
Does the Second Amendment protect the rights of felons and the mentally incompetent to have guns? - 22/12/2012 02:35:16 AM 1061 Views
Court rulings have determined that your Constitutional Rights can be restricted for felony/insanity *NM* - 23/12/2012 12:59:31 PM 557 Views
Activist judges should not make law. - 23/12/2012 02:04:42 PM 871 Views
I agree, but the courts have already ruled that way so we are stuck. *NM* - 26/12/2012 03:03:35 PM 523 Views
Then I guess we need the courts to rule gun owners need screening, training and licensing. - 26/12/2012 03:46:05 PM 865 Views
No, if you want to restrict the 2nd (or any other amendment) amend the Constitution - 26/12/2012 07:56:19 PM 836 Views
I do not want to restrict the Second Amendment, only enact the regulations it explictly allows. - 26/12/2012 08:50:09 PM 899 Views
Yes the media is using terms incorrectly but the point still stands. - 22/12/2012 03:02:18 AM 785 Views
Re: Yes the media is using terms incorrectly but the point still stands. - 22/12/2012 04:12:30 AM 846 Views
umm... - 22/12/2012 12:41:31 PM 761 Views
1997 North Hollywood Shootout - 22/12/2012 04:07:39 AM 926 Views
Laws against murder failed to prevent that, too; clearly they are ineffective and should be repealed - 22/12/2012 06:02:24 AM 979 Views
Such laws were never intended for prevention, they define actions that will be punished. *NM* - 23/12/2012 12:57:57 PM 558 Views
So do laws against getting a gun without screening, training and certification. - 23/12/2012 02:01:32 PM 797 Views
Then CHANGE the Constitution, don't ignore it. *NM* - 26/12/2012 03:12:11 PM 493 Views
I am not suggesting either changing or ignoring the Constitution. - 26/12/2012 04:01:02 PM 906 Views
Yes you are. - 26/12/2012 08:06:01 PM 706 Views
Learn logic, and stop needlessly trying to teach me grammar. - 26/12/2012 08:55:25 PM 873 Views
Lear to read, and I won't have to - 27/12/2012 04:28:59 PM 932 Views
You are wrong. - 22/12/2012 12:14:40 PM 883 Views
That explains much; I read somewhere Brits are averse to it. - 22/12/2012 01:17:15 PM 806 Views
We're also averse to being wrong. - 22/12/2012 02:53:49 PM 881 Views
So you say... - 22/12/2012 03:32:16 PM 806 Views
guns r stpid *NM* - 23/12/2012 12:39:30 AM 579 Views
What bemuses me about this thing with Adam Lanza, is that his mother had 5 registered guns - 23/12/2012 07:10:26 AM 902 Views
She was asleep with him in the house. - 23/12/2012 02:24:47 PM 875 Views
LOOK, look, there is another one... - 26/12/2012 03:13:45 PM 815 Views
I find the absolutist ant/pro-gun positions equally dangerous and absurd. - 26/12/2012 04:20:37 PM 791 Views
So we should just *kinda* ignore the Constitution *this* time... But what about NEXT time... - 26/12/2012 08:08:12 PM 775 Views
No, we should enact gun regulation the Constitution explicitly empowers. - 26/12/2012 09:02:12 PM 791 Views
Which would be... NONE. *NM* - 27/12/2012 04:31:53 PM 497 Views
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...." - 28/12/2012 05:14:49 PM 784 Views
*see previous grammar lesson* *NM* - 28/12/2012 10:31:43 PM 482 Views
The instant it becomes relevant, I shall. - 28/12/2012 11:45:01 PM 977 Views
Your point being? - 27/12/2012 10:47:29 AM 774 Views
Facts are irrelevant when FUD is the order of the day. - 24/12/2012 04:34:18 PM 781 Views
It irritates me too. *NM* - 01/01/2013 01:55:05 PM 502 Views

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