JustanObserver wrote:OmSigDAVID wrote:
"The meaning of the provision...is that the people ...shall have the right
to keep and bear arms
and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose."
The Constitution no more allows any government to control guns
than to edit the Bible or control who has one.
You quoted a supreme court justice, so it seems that's your stance.
Let me rephrase the question.
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Do you feel that it would be appropriate to regulate (in one form or another, this doen't mean a total ban)
gun use for any particular classes of people?
No. Discriminatory licensure of the right
to defend your life or property from violent depredation
is not appropriate.
I prefer equal protection of the law in the right of self-defense,
which results from a l'aissez faire free market in personal defensive emergency equipment.
This was the state of affairs that prevailed thru out America
until the early 20th Century,
altho there were ofen requirements of keeping guns showing openly,
called " open carry ".
I thought that the USSC put it very nicely, in the case of
PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY (1992) 112 S.Ct. 2791 (P. 28O5)
The US Supreme Court declares that:
"...by the express provisions of
the FIRST EIGHT amendments to the Constitution" rights were
"
guaranteed to THE INDIVIDUAL ...
It is a promise of the Constitution
that there is a realm of personal liberty
which the government may not enter." [emphasis added]
The 2nd Amendment is within "the first eight amendments".
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Examples:
People who have been convicted of violent felonies,
No.
I favor concurrent federal and state jurisdiction for
BANISHMENT of violently felonious
recidivists;
i.e., loss of citizenship, and removal from the North American Continent,
with violation of the banishment prohibited on pain of death.
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People who suffer some form of mental incapacity,
If they are dangerous,
they shud be confined to mental hospitals.
If they are free to roam in the world,
they can and they will arm themselves
with whatever equipment they
choose
from rocks, or their fists,
or kicking ( I 've seen them do that )
to sharp wood, metal, or glass, or knives,
or guns homemade or stolen or bought on the blackmarket,
the same as bathtub gin or marijuana.
They take cognizance of no law;
it is not part of their reality.
Legislating the conduct of the insane
is like legislating the weather.
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Children under a certain age,
etc.?
Everyone has a right to defend himself,
at any age, altho it is impossible to exercise that right,
during the first moments of life.
It is sad that Andrea Yates' children
found no recourse to weaponry,
as she dragged them to their watery doom.
Her oldest boy ( about 7 )
ran from her when he discovered what she was doing.
He ran screaming thru the house.
Sadly, he did not come upon a gun.
The age at which a child begins to learn self-defense
and to train to use defensive emergency equipment
is uncertain and varies among individuals,
but it is not a matter for government interference.
In any case, the control of guns was put beyond the reach
of any government by the Founders of government,
knowing, as they did ( up close n personal ) of the occasional need
to remove government, as they had just finished doing.
In any future Revolution,
they wanted the citizens to WIN.
Accordingly, they did not want government
to have control of the means that the citizens wud use
to effect that removal.
( Like the I.R.A. deciding what guns the English Army cud possess )
David
