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PHORTO
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Two points:
1) The "notifying an officer" argument is bogus. Criminals act outside the law and will not so notify, regardless. Eliminating this bow-and-scrape would create no additional danger whatsoever.
2) Imposing a training requirement and/or fee equates to a literacy test/poll tax to vote, both of which have been unequivocally declared unconstitutional.
Both of these arguments are based upon a test of rights v. public safety.
"The Second Amendment is no different. Like the First, it is the very product of an interest-balancing by the people . . . [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - D.C. v. Heller (2008) |
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