Get rid of the right to bear arms (NYT article on revising the Constitution)

The New York Times ^ | 7/8/2012 | Melynda Price

[DuncanWaring]

Nice Garand.

[DuncanWaring]

By high school graduation, I lost one cousin to gun violence and another was incarcerated for a gun crime. ...

If that's what she's concerned about, her beef is with LBJ and his "Great Society", not the Second Amendment.

[DuncanWaring]

No one's going to call for a ban on knives.

They are in England, at least the type with points.

Knives that can be used for cutting but not stabbing are grudgingly considered acceptable, at least for now.

[GOPJ]

Liberals confuse weapons with criminals. What they really want are fewer criminals - what they ask for are fewer weapons. It’s one of the reasons we think they’re so stupid.

[KeyLargo]

For all general aviation pilots that are also firearms owners I found this link for information on carry of your firearms and, or ammo in your personal aircraft:

General Aviation Guide to Flying with Guns and Ammo

http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/flying-general-aviation-with-firearms-guns-ammo/

AVIATION PING

[Gator113]

ANYONE is welcome to come a get my guns anytime they want, but they better be damn ready to pay the price that I will DEMAND.

[blackie]

The secular progressive commies are getting bolder!!

Be Ever Vigilant!!

[jdsteel]

AMEN, brother!

[Talisker]

Beyootiful Garand.

[wjcsux]

Gun Banners are like Faggots. They slither out from under their rocks from time-to-time, just like Cockroaches.

[Titan Magroyne]

4 posted on Mon Jul 09 2012 07:32:53 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Mouton: “How about we ban the NY Times instead.”As tempting as that might be, I don't think Alexander Hamilton (founder of the New York Post) or colonial publisher Benjamin Franklin would like that idea very much. The First Amendment goes back in concept to the 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York City newspaper editor who was arrested and imprisoned on libel charges after criticizing a corrupt New York colonial governor. The refusal of the jury to convict Zenger despite clearly having violated existing law established the principle in America that truth is an absolute defense against libel and that news media have the inherent right (and responsibility) to criticize the government.

As I like to say to my liberal colleagues, it's pretty hard to advocate restrictions on the rights conveyed by the Second Amendment without logically opening doors to restrictions on the First Amendment.

That means the New York Times has every right under the First Amendment to publish this nonsense, and we on Free Republic have every right under the same First Amendment to dissect the nonsense and prove it to be idiotic. IIRC from Ben Franklin's autobiography, he had been for a while apprenticed to an older brother who was a newspaper publisher. The brother was jailed and fined for having the temerity to critisize Boston's constabulary & PTB for not stopping pirates that were wreaking havoc among local area shippers.

I suppose if the brother had first applied for and gotten his permit to exercise his rights to free speech, he could have avoided being arrested.
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[<1/1,000,000th%]

Get rid of the NYTimes.

[archy]

Perhaps someone might send a polite email to her blog, appropriately named "Thoughts of an Ivory Tower Interloper."

Melynda Price is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Perhaps a polite letter should be sent to the Kentucky Bar Association instead:

18 USC § 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

KENTUCKY BAR ASSOCIATION
RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY
PRACTICE OF LAW
SCR 3.130(8.4) Misconduct

It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:

(a) violate or attempt to violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another;
(b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects;, (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; . ... .

[patton]

You know what the word “Naked” means in middle english?

Unarmed. No Sword. Had nothing to do with your pants.

Also, in Switzerland, you could not vote without a sword. (You held your sword up for yes.)

Funny, they still have these wierd gun laws - everyone is required to own one...

We had that same law in Virginia. Eache householdere were requirede to owne a longe gun fo every male in the householde, and a shorte gun for eveye female...

And, if you forgot to bring alle those guns to churche, the fine was two hundred pounds of tobacco.

Tell that to a liberal, and watch his head expode. LOL.

[PilotDave]

“They believed that citizens should be armed to protect themselves from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
And they were especially concerned with an overreaching government so they specifically limited the powers of the government. “

Furthermore, they beleived that if you were living under a immoral unjust intrusive government, it was your moral obligation to rise up in arms against that government.