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To: Red in Blue PA

So does a Concealed Carry Permit (ID) place to great a burden on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms? Seems like the exact same logic applies.


9 posted on 01/17/2014 6:47:36 AM PST by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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To: Jack Black

Nail on the head post.


13 posted on 01/17/2014 6:49:29 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jack Black
So does a Concealed Carry Permit (ID) place to great a burden on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms?

Not a great burden but it is clearly an infringement.

33 posted on 01/17/2014 7:06:33 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: Jack Black

Good point. However, while the Second Amendment applies to confirm that the right to keep and bear arms applies to all humans, as an expression of the natural right of self defense. It does not create that right, it merely attempts to make clear that it cannot be taken away (current efforts notwithstanding).

However, the right to vote is established in the Constitution, and is not the same kind of “natural right” of all people by virtue of being alive.

If you are not a citizen, you cannot vote (yet), or if you are not of age, you cannot vote. If you are a felon, you cannot vote.

However, a non-citizen, a child, and a felon, should still have the right to self-defense.

I know that is not the law now, but I think there is a distinction between a “natural right” and a Constitutionally created one. Whether anyone is consistent on that point is another matter.

Therefore, I think you make a good point.


54 posted on 01/17/2014 8:29:13 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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