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With Constitutional Rights Come Responsibility and Consequences
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David Williamson
Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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One again we are slapped in the face with the reality of statistics. Last week in Warner Robins a 4-year-old boy found a gun, we don’t know exactly where, but it was somewhere inside the car where he and three other children were riding. We don’t know if it was in the glove compartment or the handbag of the woman who had left the children unattended in the car while she went into a restaurant to pick up food.
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PHORTO
(8/7/2017)
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Pretty good oped, with two faux pas:
1) The vast majority of 'children' victims counted by the CDC are between 14 and 19 - hardly 'children', and most are involved in gang culture.
2) The perpetual comparison of licensing drivers to licensing gun ownership. These people flatly ignore the fact that if we are to obey the Constitution, a license cannot be required to exercise a fundamental right.
"The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - Antonin Scalia, D.C. v. Heller (2008)
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For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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