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With Constitutional Rights Come Responsibility and Consequences
Submitted by:
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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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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