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Our Nation Needs Common Sense On Guns
Submitted by:
David Williamson
Website: http://keepandbeararms.com
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The shooting at a community college in Oregon is only the latest in a long line of carnage inflicted by people who are unstable, but who have an all-too- easy access to guns. While the solutions to this problem are not easy, they must be addressed.
It’s too easy to dismiss what has become an epidemic in this country with easy answers like “The Second Amendment is being threatened,” or “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” |
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PHORTO
(10/7/2015)
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File under "unclear on the concept".
The Second Amendment protects the people's right to arms suitable for military purposes. That was the Framers' intent, and that is what the Supreme Court clarified in 1939, in U.S. v. Miller, ruling that the Second Amendment specifically protected the right to bear arms "that are any part of the ordinary military equipment" and/or whose "use could contribute to the common defense".
So-called "common sense" cannot be used to neutralize a core principle of this nation's ethic. That isn't "common sense" at all - it is reactionary.
And acting upon it in defiance of guaranteed liberty would be facially unconstitutional. |
Comment by:
lostone1413
(10/7/2015)
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153098157601408&set=p.10153098157601408&type=3&theater
Check this out another phony fake shooting |
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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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