Monday, February 22, 2010

"All Kinds of Reasonable Restrictions"

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Posted by David Codrea at 2/22/2010 09:35:00 AM

3 comments:

Crotalus said...

I noticed what the Brady shyster said at the end. He clearly means to NOT recognize the right of the people to keep and bear arms. How do you do that when it is clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights?

2/22/2010 9:59 AM
Unknown said...

Come, come. I think we could come up with some reasonable restrictions with sound historical basis if we tried:

Carrying a pistol with insufficient ammunition -- $5 civil fine.

Failure to muster -- $50 civil fine.

Carry while intoxicated -- misdemeanor.

Carry while giving aid and succor to the enemy -- tar and feathers.

2/22/2010 10:15 AM
W W Woodward said...

Couldn't find a comments section following the WaPo article so ... I guess y'all will have to be subjected to my rant.

Statements attributed to Tom G. Palmer from the WaPo article: 1) “The Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to ‘keep and bear arms,’ and ‘bear,’ he says, ‘means to carry.’ … 2) ‘There are all kinds of reasonable restrictions that can be established,’ he says.”

While I agree with Mr. Palmers’ first statement, I have to take issue with the second.

Mr. Palmer seems to forget that Germany, in the late thirties and early forties, had “reasonable restrictions” on homosexual activity. Violation of these “reasonable restrictions” was punishable by death.

… “The RIGHT of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed >>>>>>>.” Okay, so I overstate the period. The presence of that period cannot be debated. Look up the definition of "infringed". Better still look up the definition of "infringed" in a dictionary in use at the time the Constitution was written.

[W-III]

2/23/2010 11:23 PM

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