Such as yours truly.Glenn wrote:
at any given time the government is not representing the wishes of a significant portion of the population.
So we independents (libertarian-leaning in my case) end up determining the course of many elections.
- Bill
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In that case thank you! Sorry, I did not read it as a complement at first. I actually thought you were saying I was slow in finding that...such is my take on the information age in which we live I guess.Bill Glasheen wrote: Take a complement when handed to you, Glenn.
My friend Mr. Jefferson...Glenn wrote:
I don't know, given the times and how necessary weapons were then for many reasons, I would be surprised if they envisioned a future where the legality of weapons would be debated.
- BillNone but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- WSJLAW | JUNE 30, 2010
Chicago Mulls Gun-Ban Alternatives
CHICAGO—The day after the Supreme Court cleared a path to overturn this city's ban on handguns—among the toughest in the U.S.—frustrated city officials began Tuesday to consider new measures to circumvent the high court's ruling.
At a tense City Hall meeting packed with citizens holding up photos of children who'd been shot, city aldermen discussed forcing gun owners to purchase liability insurance and to undergo criminal background checks and periodic firearms training. They also peppered a firearms-law expert and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis with questions while promising to pass something meaningful.
If the city can pass a dog ordinance that "can protect the public from a dog bite," we should be able to tighten handgun regulations, Alderman Freddrenna Lyle said.
The debate comes at the direction of Mayor Richard Daley, an outspoken critic of gun access who reacted angrily to the Supreme Court decision.
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AS EXPECTED, most of the letters to the Globe with regard to Jeff Jacoby’s column on guns were negative. And indeed, everything said about the lethal purpose of guns is true, but incredibly incomplete. Two aspects are ignored.
The first is that there is no law and never can be any law that will prevent guns from falling into the hands of killers. It has become almost trite to point this out, but that does not detract from its validity.
The second is that the notion of “the right of the people’’ appears in several places in the Bill of Rights. If you can start to alter one of those 10 rights, you can alter them all.
Shall we restate the First Amendment to read that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, provided
that the religion has the following set of beliefs:’’?
Reasonable people can try to seek reasonable compromises as to the proper and safe use of handguns.
The problem is that the issue, like so much else in public discourse, has been politicized to the point where both sides shout platitudes at each other and are in no mood to even attempt a sane conversation.
The letters the Globe published on this topic certainly fit into this category.
Jack Kay,
Framingham
1. How and why did the children get shot? Where did the guns to shoot the children come from, if Chicago has such stringent regulations?At a tense City Hall meeting packed with citizens holding up photos of children who'd been shot, city aldermen discussed forcing gun owners to purchase liability insurance and to undergo criminal background checks and periodic firearms training.
They also peppered a firearms-law expert and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis with questions while promising to pass something meaningful.
If the city can pass a dog ordinance that "can protect the public from a dog bite," we should be able to tighten handgun regulations, Alderman Freddrenna Lyle said.
Let's see...Van Canna wrote:Well, then...the 2nd should have been drafted without gray shades