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We Don’t Need a Sweeping Overhaul of Gun Laws
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Further, states can strengthen these laws without imposing overly broad Second Amendment restrictions on the general public.
On the whole, federal prohibitions on possession of firearms by the mentally ill correctly focus on individualized determinations of dangerousness, and not on the broader category of diagnosis alone.
This is consistent with both the Second Amendment’s protection of a fundamental right and a recognition that the existence of a mental illness in and of itself does not mean a person poses a heightened risk of future violence. |
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Due process must be followed BEFORE anyone's rights or property can be denied, NOT as an afterthought.
Per the 4th, 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments, a person cannot be denied rights or property unless due process is followed establishing cause for such denial, pursuant to an adversarial hearing wherein the respondent can face his accusers, cross-examine witnesses, and present witnesses and exculpatory evidence in his behalf.
This must occur before any warrant may issue or seizure takes place. |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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