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   BeamMeUpScotty to Nic   
   Re: "[T]he right secured by the Second A   
   01 Dec 22 11:25:51   
   
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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 12/1/22 7:51 AM, Nic wrote:   
   > On 12/1/22 12:48 AM, governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:53:35 -0500, Nic  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 11/28/22 10:28 PM, Mike Colangelo wrote:   
   >>>> Some limitation on the types of arms protected by the second amendment   
   >>>> is clearly within the scope of the amendment.  Mr. Justice Scalia in   
   >>>> the Heller decision:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>       There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and   
   >>>>       history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual   
   right   
   >>>>       to keep and bear arms. Of course the right was *not unlimited*,   
   >>>>       just as the First Amendment ’s right of free speech was not,   
   see,   
   >>>>       e.g., United States v. Williams, 553 U. S. ___ (2008). Thus, we   
   >>>>       do not read the Second Amendment to protect the right of   
   citizens   
   >>>>       to carry arms for any sort of confrontation, just as we do not   
   >>>>       read the First Amendment to protect the right of citizens to   
   >>>>       speak for any purpose.   
   >>>>       [...]   
   >>>>       Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is   
   >>>>       *not unlimited*. From Blackstone through the 19th-century   
   cases,   
   >>>>       commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was   
   >>>>       not a right to keep and carry *any weapon whatsoever* in any   
   >>>>       manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.   
   >>>>       [emphasis added]   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Crazed far-right squat-to-piss girly boy gun-fondling morons want the   
   >>>> right to be unlimited, and they talk as if it is, even after having   
   >>>> disingenuously acknowledged that it isn't, but the simple fact is, the   
   >>>> right is *not* unlimited, and those limits include limitations on what   
   >>>> arms one may have.   
   >> Sounds lovely.  Men will still read it a thousand years from now.   
   >>   
   >> Ok, back to practical reality.   
   >>   
   >>> When a law banning some kind of gun is upheld on   
   >>>> appeal, the appellate court is not "limiting" your right,   
   >> Of course it is.  If he has a right to any and all arms, his right to   
   >> bear is being infringed by the courts.  "CONGRESS shall not . . ."   
   >>   
   >>>> as Hartung   
   >>>> like to lie.  No, the right already carries with it *inherent* limits,   
   >>>> and the court is finding that the ban is *within* the limits of the   
   >>>> right.   
   >> What are the inherent limits?  It's been asked but not answered.   
   >>   
   >>>> You don't have a right   
   >> "You don't have the right" is not the same as "You can't have."   
   >>   
   >>> to just whatever arms you may wish to have.   
   >>>> This is a matter of text, history and judicial interpretation, and it   
   >>>> is settled. scooter, Francis Mark Hansen, Hartung, BlueGirl, kleine   
   >>>> klauschen "no-foreskin" Schittenkike — these right-wingnuts think the   
   >>>> right is to just whatever arms they might wish to have, and that is   
   >>>> false.  If Congress were to pass a law prohibiting private ownership   
   >>>> ("keeping") of, say, shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles, that law would   
   >>>> be upheld.  Such arms are outside the inherent limits of the right, so   
   >>>> banning them doesn't violate the right.   
   >>> You overlook the facts   
   >> No, I don't.   
   >>   
   >>> that when these documents were forged, the intent   
   >>> was to have arms to defend against the forces that sought to destroy the   
   >>> Americans for their rebellion against the monarchy. Having arms suitable   
   >>> to defend the American homeland was the intention.   
   >> They all had hunting rifles and perhaps other, sporty guns? Artillery?   
   >> Attack fighters?  Bombers?  Carriers?   
   >>   
   >>> see: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created   
   >>> equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable   
   >>> Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of   
   >>> Happiness.—   
   >> Lovely but I don't think those truths are "self evident", all men are   
   >> NOT created equal (but they should be entitled to equal opportunity   
   >> and treatment before the law) and rights aren't natural or   
   >> inalienable, they're  human construct.   
   >>   
   >> The only right nature gives you is the right to survive long enough to   
   >> reproduce.   
   >>   
   >>> That to secure these rights,   
   >> Not just secure but define.  The Declaration of the Rights of Man   
   >> contains the right to free health care.  Do you agree with that right?   
   >>   
   >>> Governments are instituted   
   >>> among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—   
   >> Majority rule.  You don't have the right to insist you got more votes   
   >> than the other guy unless you did.   
   >>   
   >>> That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,   
   >>> it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to   
   >>> institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and   
   >>> organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to   
   >>> effect their Safety and Happiness.   
   >> Sounds lovely but . . .   
   >>   
   >> Swill   
   >   
   > Consider the fact that all those super arms are being controlled by   
   > people who first are governed by the Constitution of The US and secondly   
   > by the oaths taken by the military. So technically these people have the   
   > final control of how the arms will be used.   
   >   
   The President has the codes and the keys.....  the rest are just symbols   
   of it being a process to unleash MASS DESTRUCTION.   
      
      
   We know it's a false process because general Milley and Nancy Pelosi   
   conspired to enagage in a Coup D`etat that seized control of the nuclear   
   weapons by undermining the President's top secret authority.   
      
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