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To: neverdem

It sounds as though these buffoons aren’t very big fans of the Bill of Rights.


2 posted on 02/21/2008 6:25:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Join in the spirit of "hope!" Change is good! Embrace climate change!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hostile to it.


3 posted on 02/21/2008 6:26:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Or very bright


4 posted on 02/21/2008 6:29:51 PM PST by wastedyears (This is my BOOMSTICK)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
It sounds as though these buffoons aren’t very big fans of the Bill of Rights.

And not only the federal Bill of Rights, but the version in the state constitution as well.

The RKBA portion of that is much stronger, and more specific, than the second amendment.

All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to keep and bear arms for security or defense of self, family, home, and others, and for lawful common defense, hunting, recreational use, and all other lawful purposes, and such rights shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof. To secure these rights, and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Of course it would help if the State Supreme Court would actually enforc that RKBA provision. They've had at least two chances since it was put into the Constitution by an initiative of the people in 1988. Once in '89 and once in '90. They kind of focused on the "denied" part and ignored the "infringed" part. The second case involved a ban on having machine guns, short rifles and short long guns, with an exception for those having them under the provisions of the NFA, which means of course that by the 1990 case, newly produced machine guns had been banned for around 4 years, but somehow that is not an "infringement?". The first case involved the restoration of rights to felons who had served their full sentences and had their other rights restored. Again, somehow that is not an infringement.

Of course the various laws that might be invalidated by the provision haven't made it to the State Supreme Court yet, heck it's only been 20+ years. For example the laws forbidding concealed carry (now without a permit, but that's much more recent than 1988. The requirement to have a "permit" in the form of a FOID before purchasing a handgun might be another.

Some cities are still saying they will not respect concealed carry permits. Or they were the last I heard.

Still, in Nebraska, as in other rural and rural influenced areas, this sort of bill is likely DOA.

11 posted on 02/21/2008 8:30:23 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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