Posted on 11/19/2019 4:52:27 AM PST by Lowell1775
Where in the Constitution does it say “... the right to keep and bear arms, but only while sober...”
What's to stop a cop from dropping a beer can (or a case) into a house where he wants to confiscate guns?
Or into an ex-girlfriend's new dude?
Or a malicious ex-wife and her divorce attorney doing that?
The prosecutors in OH misapplied the law.
How about meth or other illegal drugs? How about cough medicine? How about tripping hazards as your walking around with the gun? Maybe pass a law against carrying it while sneezing or hiccuping or laughing because you might drop it causing it to go off or one in a billion chance of pulling the trigger during a sneeze.
I agree.
An incorrect ruling here would create two classes of people under the law. Muslims and Mormons vs. just about everybody else.
Well since they’ve outlawed homeowners the right to shoot rats in their basement it’s no surprise. Will that also apply to street gangs? Oh, maybe not since they’re unable to control them.
Whatever they decide doesn’t matter.
It’s still better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Why do the media never say that the guns used in a crime are non-registered illegal guns?
prohibiting gun owners from carrying firearms while intoxicated should be applied inside a gun owner’s home.
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Next we will hear that just the possession and handling of firearms intoxicates the owner (with power).
And that intoxication is illegal.
“So, if there is to be war, go first for the prosecutors.”
All of officialdom is at risk.
They will be forced into dedicated enclaves after they watch the hangings of journalists and professors.
That is untrue.
On balance, it was probably unwise and repeal was, on balance, in the public interest.
But it was sold as a public health and safety measure, and on those grounds, both in terms of hospital admissions for alcohol poisoning and liver disease, as well as domestic violence incidents, prohibition was a great success.
Prohibition made a lot of normal people into criminals. It made a lot of criminals into very bad criminals. And it created a massive Federal bureaucracy to prosecute alcohol which is still with us to this day and is completely out of control. BATF
Probation is also thought to have played a part in bringing on the Great Depression. It decimated a large number of jobs in the transportation industry and jobs in the liquor industry and those job losses had a snowball effect.
The amount of unemployment created by prohibition is something that rarely gets mentioned yet it was very significant.
That's because the people who wrote the Constitution had no idea that anyone would ever be dumb enough to claim that the common law right to travel was somehow a 'privilege' that could be revoked by the state at will. I wouldn't have ever believed it either.
However, if you’re driving home with those same unopened containers and grandma t-bones you, it’s now considered an “alcohol-involved” accident, even though both you and grandma are both sober. You likely won’t be charged with anything, but it WILL be used to pad the statistics, which will be used to tighten the laws even further.
Same slippery slope. You have noticed that the BAC level for what is considered “impaired” has been dropping over the last decade, haven’t you?
I won’t belabor you, but in Canada, Trudeau got a law passed that makes it that you can be charged for impaired driving even if you’ve been home for up to 2 hours. Really.
It’s the same mindset: make criminals out of everyone not a member of the elite. Lavrenty Beria was their visionary.
"That would be a bit tricky to do, but I suppose if you want someone bad enough, and are sinister enough, you can find ways to get cops to do your bidding. It is a highly unlikely hypothetical, however."
Actually, that doesn't seem unlikely at all. With the current harassment and attacks on conservatives in restaurants, stores and HOA conflicts, a neighbor setting up another seems all too plausible.
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