Posted on 04/23/2007 7:36:17 AM PDT by presidio9
Actually, the U.S Supreme Court has ruled that dorms, along with high school lockers, come with an expectation of privacy the triggers the protection of the Fourth Amendment, making random, warrantless searches illegal. The landlord at Virginia Tech is the state of Virginia, which creates a different releationship than a private landlord would have with its tenants.
“Americans need to get over their love affair with guns”
I think Ben Stein is being quite clever here, since those are almost the exact words of Janet Reno when the 1994 `assault weapons’ ban was passed.
However, unlike your typical preachy pompous liberal, Stein knows that a smarmy, condescending statement like that will only infuriate gun owners into standing up even harder against those who seek to disarm us.
This may not be Ben Stein’s actual view of the right to own guns. He has the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to think upon (shouldn’t we all).
I sensed nothing in his facial expression, tone of voice or attendant language that would suggest he was being other than sincere. I take him at his word.
Every Jew has the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to think upon. Shumer, Feinstein, Boxer, et. are all unimpressed by the lessons taught there. Worse, they will do their best to guarantee that gun owners will be treated to the same luxurious accomodations.
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