I recognize that I haven’t responded to the counterargument that more guns actually promote safety. While my understanding of the available evidence leads me to disagree with this assessment, I will say only that the debate about the purpose and role of weapons in contemporary America is best left to our elected bodies rather than our unelected courts.Why is that your "understanding," Xan? If you have evidence, let's see it.
And "majority rule" should be the final arbiter of individual rights? Like when slavery was legal? Oh, but that's right--you maintain 2A is not an individual right. So if I have to take your word against, say, theirs, well why wouldn't I go with the student over the seasoned professors?
Besides, we all know "the people" referred to in the First Amendment also was intended to mean today's National Guard. No? (Nice little bit of sleight-of-mind there. Someone who didn't know better might not think to reference the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and see the deliberate distinction made between the states and the people. But good try.)
You Yalies are just as impressive as your Harvard counterparts.
Yup, like David said, Xanman, where is the evidence you point to? Answer. The evidence is contrary to Xans assertion. His understanding of the subject is limited to his ability to lie about it.
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ReplyDeleteHe claims: ...The Bill of Rights makes a meaningful distinction between the rights of “the people” and of “persons.”
No one who has any understanding of English grammar would make such a silly statement. Both useages, persons, and people, refer to individual citizens. In fact, the only distinctions made in the Constitution are between The People of the United States, and the government, as defined by Powers and Authorities. This distinction starts in the Preamble, to wit: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..., and Article 1, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States...
This child also claims:
Despite any protestation to the contrary, the text of our Constitution does draw a significant distinction between collective and individual rights.
He doesn't even have the most basic understanding of Constitutional law, which would inform him that there IS NO SUCH THING as a "collective right."
ALL RIGHTS are individual rights, and all the government possesses are the aforementioned "powers and authorities."
Just goes to prove you don't have to really be smart to get into college, just do what the teachers tell you to do.
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