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   Message 50,642 of 51,410   
   Just Wondering to Rudy Canoza   
   Re: Think Progress Editor: Conservatives   
   16 Jan 19 12:29:16   
   
   XPost: alt.politics.conservative, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: JW@me.com   
      
   On 1/16/2019 11:36 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   > On 1/16/2019 10:29 AM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   >> On 1/16/2019 11:06 AM, Reply to: albasani.kook@albasani.net wrote:   
   >>> Last Tuesday a 25-year-old woman in Chicago was waiting at the   
   >>> bus stop in the early morning when she was approached by a 19-   
   >>> year-old man with a gun. The Chicago Tribune describes what   
   >>> happened next:   
   >>>   
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   >>>   
   >>> Laavion Goings Jr. was out of jail only two months when the 19-   
   >>> year-old walked up to a bus stop about a block from his home,   
   >>> pulled out a gun and tried to rob a woman on the Far South Side.   
   >>>   
   >>> But the woman had a gun too and fired first, hitting Goings in   
   >>> the chest, according to Chicago police. The teen ran back to his   
   >>> home and made it as far as a stairwell in the foyer of a   
   >>> building before collapsing in the 400 block of West 103rd Street.   
   >>>   
   >>> That’s where officers found him shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday,   
   >>> just minutes after the shooting. He died within an hour at   
   >>> Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.   
   >>>   
   >>> Video from across the street apparently captured the incident so   
   >>> police know exactly what happened. The intended victim had a   
   >>> concealed carry permit for her gun so she is not in any trouble   
   >>> with authorities. This is a clear case of self-defense.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> People have a fundamental right to protect themselves.  The woman   
   >> should not have had to ask government permission (a permit) to be   
   >> able to defend herself.   
   > "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."   
   >   
   > Justice Antonin Scalia - District of Columbia v. Heller   
   > June 26, 2008   
   >   
   > A requirement for a permit to carry a concealed weapon is   
   > not an infringement of the right.  This is settled.   
      
   Please provide a citation to the U.S. Supreme Court opinion that   
   holds "a requirement for a permit to carry a concealed weapon is   
   not an infringement of the right."  Without that Opinion, the   
   question most assuredly is not settled.   
      
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