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WV: Senate Candidates on the Issues- Guns
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West Virginia's senate candidates take aim at a key battleground seat. This is the first piece in a week-long look at the issues behind the race, starting with guns and the Second Amendment. Both incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his challenger Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R-WV) paint themselves as pro-gun, but the two take different approaches to balancing personal rights and public safety. |
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PHORTO
(9/12/2018)
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"[T]he two take different approaches to balancing personal rights and public safety."
Fundamental rights are NOT subject to "interest-balancing", and these yahoos need to quit saying that they are.
"We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government ... the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. . . The Second Amendment is no different. Like the First, it is the very product of an interest-balancing by the people[.]" - D.C. v. Heller (2008) |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(9/12/2018)
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| More good people ccw-ing would improve public safety ~~~many studies show this. |
| Comment by:
jac
(9/12/2018)
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"Pro gun" democrats are pro gun until their vote matters. Then they vote with the other gun grabbing democrats to restrict our rights.
Never trust a democrat to protect our second amendment rights. |
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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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