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Re: Huntington Shooting(Re: Brentwood Long Island Shootings) |
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Posted by AlM on Thu Sep 3 10:52:29 2009, in response to Re: Huntington Shooting(Re: Brentwood Long Island Shootings), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Sep 3 10:19:20 2009. "Arms technically just means weapon, yet not all weapons are allowed. Is there a Constitutional right to own bombs?"You know that's not what the founding fathers mean. That's a distraction that people that want to pull this out of the constitution use to instill fear about this part. It's not a distraction. It's the basic issue. - Almost everyone agrees that most people should be allowed to own some weapons. - Almost everyone agrees that people should be forbidden from owning certain powerful weapons. So there's no constitutional issue at all. It's all a matter of where you draw the line. And that's decided by the legislative process, not by courts. If Texas wants the line way over to the right and NY wants the line way over to the left, both are fine, as long as some basic rules (no total ban, no anti-tank weapons) are observed by both states. Probably the only consitutional issue of any meaning is how much right does Congress have to restrict the states on either the left or the right. |
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