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To: William Tell

No more than you have the “right” to commit murder, rape or any other crime on your property. Yes you can do it but you also are subject to the consequences.

In your particular example, you can build it, but the city may make you tear it down.

Now I will also acknowledge that there is a debate on what exactly a city can or can not tell you to do with your property. My position tends to be very limiting on the restrictions that the city may place on you.


12 posted on 02/29/2008 11:16:57 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol
taxcontrol said: "My position tends to be very limiting on the restrictions that the city may place on you."

I would tend to draw the line at controlling what "corporations" are allowed to do.

There is no natural right to form a corporation. Such legal entitities are entirely the creation of man and their legal positions are entirely subject to legislative definition.

There are distinct economic advantages to being able to form corporations and there is a price to pay in additional taxation for the legal privilege of forming a corporation.

I would modify corporate law to specify that the Constitutionally-protected, individual right to keep and bear arms will not be infringed by any corporation. Any corporation unwilling to abide by this legal requirement will simply have to be taken private and lose its legislatively enacted "limited liability".

Private enterprises would quickly decide that there is no competitive advantage, but rather a competitive disadvantage, to infringing the right to keep and bear arms of its customers.

I am disgusted by the attitude of anti-gun liberals that it is permissible to dictate practically any behavior whatever of a business, but then suggest that "private property" is somehow sacrosanct with regard to the right to keep and bear arms.

The anti-gunners want businesses to bar weapons because they believe that weapons are unsafe, not because they believe that businesses should have the right to decide for themselves.

Didn't Oklahoma include a liability exemption for businesses with regard to employee-owned guns?

13 posted on 02/29/2008 11:39:28 AM PST by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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To: taxcontrol

I’m convinced now you’re simply a gun-grabber.

And your private property rights argument is both specious and transparent in that it exposes you as one of Sarah’s handmaidens.

A law abiding citizen should be permitted to pack heat anywhere at all. Period.

What part of this do you not understand?

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

And there’s no “Congress shall make no laws...” line there, so this means what it says. NO ONE has the right to infinge my right to bear arms.

Oh-every gun law ever passed is unconstitutional. There is no compromise on this issue.


14 posted on 02/29/2008 2:32:34 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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