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To: NCLaw441
Private property rights do not trump our rights to carry arms. -- Among rational people the two rights coexist without controversy.
How is your property threatened by an armed visitor or worker?

Banks routinely prohibit firearms in their buildings.

We have an inalienable right to carry arms. We've in a sense compromised that right [to appease the delicate sensabilities of banker types] by regulating it to enable 'concealed carry'.
Your banker still has no constitutional power to routinely prohibit concealed carry firearms in their buildings. -- Rational concealed carry States agree.

Under your way of thinking, banks are violating constitutional rights when they don't let you bring guns to the teller window.

You got it.
-- Now, just how is your property [or bank/business] threatened by a visitor or worker carrying a concealed arm?

152 posted on 10/08/2007 7:39:54 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: tpaine

You posted: — Now, just how is your property [or bank/business] threatened by a visitor or worker carrying a concealed arm?
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You have gotten the incorrect impression that I support all of the actions I have said are allowed. I do not. The states that allow concealed carry have proven to have less gun crime that those states who do not. Mine is purely a constitutional law point. Governments cannot enforce laws that run contrary to 2nd amendment and other constitutional rights. Private individuals (including businesses and employers) are not like government. Laws may be passed to protect these rights from the private property rights of individuals and businesses. Concealed carry laws are an example of this. But, in the absence of such laws, individuals and private businesses have the right to decide what is and is not allowed on their property. If you want to exercise those rights, stay off of their property.

I don’t necessarily disagree with the positions you take. Those positions just aren’t supported by the law.


153 posted on 10/09/2007 2:37:15 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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