[Vision2020] Gun regulations

[lfalen]

Bob
Guns also have the ability to keep me from being killed by a criminal.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:37:35 -0700
To: "'viz'" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Gun regulations

> Scott, I'm not sure the analogy holds though. In the case of guns, I might
> more rightfully restrict someone else's rights because the guns owned by
> them have the potential to kill  ME. However, in the case of abortion, I
> don't have quite the same bargaining position, because it is difficult for
> someone to abort ME now that I am born. (Indeed, I've been an adult for eons
> it seems.)
> 
>  
> 
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
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> <Conservatives are all for constitutionality of laws . . .until they aren't
> for constitutionality for laws...?> True enough, but so are the Democrats.
> All you need to look at are those trying to restrict 2nd Amendment
> constitutional rights of gun ownership on the grounds that guns can be used
> as tools to kill people and compare them to those trying to restrict 14
> Amendment constitutional rights of abortion on grounds that it kills people.
> It's the identical mode of operation where folks feign to give up rights
> that they never plan to exercise in order to take away those same rights
> from others.
> 
> -Scott
> 
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> From: reggieholmquist at u.boisestate.edu
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:21:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Gun regulations
> 
> Conservatives are all for constitutionality of laws . . .until they aren't
> for constitutionality for laws...?
> 
> -Reggie
> 
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Robert Dickow <dickow at uidaho.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Shirley Ringo writes:
> 
> >"Gun safety is very important to me.  In the most recent session, 
> >the majority passed legislation stipulating that firearms manufactured 
> >exclusively in Idaho would be exempt from federal regulations.  I think
> that
> > is dangerous and irresponsible.  Our Attorney General said it was likely
> > unconstitutional.  My vote was one of the few against that legislation."
> 
> Bravo Shirley!
> 
> So, does this mean that when I rush out to buy that lusted-after
> Idaho-manufactured Uzi clone (just.. you know. for some fun shooting
> squirrels around the house), that it might misfire in my face due to a lack
> of its compliance with federal regs??!!
> 
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
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