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To: Leaning Right

“Consider a situation where you are in your house during a blackout. You are “blind”.”

Exactly so. Yet, you do not advocate taking a person’s Constitutional right to bear arms away from them because of that disability. You rely on them to use their judgement.

Being blind does not prevent someone from having the ability to use judgement.


32 posted on 09/11/2013 9:49:06 AM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain
Yet, you do not advocate taking a person’s Constitutional right to bear arms away from them because of that disability.

There's the line I was talking about earlier.

Restrictions for home firearm possession should be as minimal as possible. Heck, I even support giving convicted felons the right to home firearm possession after, say, five years of no arrests.

But restrictions for public carry should be just a bit tighter. Because it's now not just you and your family that's involved. It's also me and me family.

The gentleman with palsy that I referenced earlier has every right to do whatever he wants in his own home. But less so out in public.

Notice that I said "just a bit tighter" two paragraphs above. But as you and I both know, the government likes to tighten things just a bit until there is no freedom left. That's the real problem.

Regards to you. It's been an interesting discussion, and I'm interested in any further thoughts you might have on this. But I'll be offline for awhile as I'm now going out to pick the last of the season's tomatoes.

33 posted on 09/11/2013 10:01:58 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: marktwain

if you shoot someone through a door with a shotgun, you’re also shooting ‘blind’.

or shooting ‘Biden’ if you prefer.


36 posted on 09/11/2013 10:14:09 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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