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| Comment by:
Millwright66
(6/27/2015)
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| How does one set about documenting all the instances of criminals being deterred by their appreciation of threat of their victim(s) being armed ? How do we document how a reactive reach for a firearm deters a criminal ? How do we document how many criminals have a change of heart when their intended victim displays a firearm ? We can't, except in the aggregate decline in violent crimes where the threat of CCW prevails. And its precisely on this hinge VPC and its ilk swing their innuendos. |
| Comment by:
teebonicus
(6/28/2015)
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These "studies", valid or not, are irrelevant.
The sanctity of our fundamental rights is neither increased nor diminished by any "study".
Fundamental rights stand apart from the democratic process, and are immutable.
As Scalia wrote in Heller, fundamental, natural rights are not subject to any free-standing "interest balancing" test. |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right. [Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846)] |
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