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NY: Right to bear arms is not absolute
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Kim DiScala’s letter titled “Government is taking away our constitutional rights” in the Dec. 19-20 edition of the Star is virtually devoid of facts.
She asserts that “It’s not a privilege to own a firearm, it is a right ... without restriction or stipulation, that is not to be infringed.” While throughout our country’s history, the Second Amendment has provoked much debate and controversy, there was virtually no clear resolution by the courts what rights exactly the amendment protects before our era. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(1/7/2021)
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| It's ONE sentence. It's meaning is CLEAR. I'm sorry to all the linguini livered loonies who insist on over-thinking it and thus turned 1st grade math into quantum string theory, but it really is pretty straight forward. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
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"[T]here was virtually no clear resolution by the courts what rights exactly the amendment protects before our era."
"The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." -- U.S. v. Cruikshank (1875)
Do your homework. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
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| It's hard to do homework effectively when all you have is a library of comic books ........ |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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