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To: tpaine
Why would you want to 'kick out' an invited visitor or worker, -- who happens to be carrying a concealed weapon? -- Certainly, in a private residence you can 'kick out' anyone at any time, but why are you focused on depriving them of the right to carry?

Who cares? This is not an issue of whether the reasoning behind execution of the right is reasonable to you or me, just that it is lawfully executed. If I don't want you on my property because your shoelaces are frayed, I don't want you on my property.

Actually, the two rights co-exist quite well, as your visitors who carry - contribute to protecting your property from criminals.

Of course they co-exist, but your rights do not superceed my right to prevent you access to my property. If I do not want your protection, you can not force it on me...

Again, I am amazed at how many conservatives are only interested in property rights when the owners of the property want to protect conservative interests.

168 posted on 10/12/2007 6:31:21 PM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: dpa5923

Again, I am amazed at how many conservatives are only interested in property rights when the owners of the property want to protect conservative interests.
***And I am amazed at how many absolutists there are who conveniently overlook the constitution, and that the constitution was in effect before any employer had property rights over a given piece of land.


170 posted on 10/12/2007 7:20:28 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq— via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.))
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To: dpa5923
You cannot refute:

It is the public policy of the United States that our right to carry arms shall not be infringed.
Private property owners who prohibit concealed carry of arms by their invited visitors and/or business associates are, in effect, thumbing their nose at one of the Constitutions primary principles.

The Brady bunch types want everyone in the USA to believe; - that property rights trump our right to carry arms.
Actually, the two rights co-exist quite well, as your visitors who carry - contribute to protecting your property from criminals.

I am amazed at how many conservatives are only interested in property rights when the owners of the property want to protect conservative interests.

Why do you say it is "protecting conservative interests" to ban concealed carry on your property?

171 posted on 10/13/2007 6:40:25 AM 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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