[Vision2020] Idaho Senate Bill 1254 and Idaho's city police chiefs

[Sunil]

Paul,

If the Constitutional amendment specifically forbids such a thing, that prohibition must be absolute.

You have made statements along this line before. I continue to wonder why. 

Why is the right to bear arms unconditional? Are you really saying the state shall not restrict that right in any way? Is this your opinion or is it factually correct?

Sunil

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:04:33 -0800
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: dickow at turbonet.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Senate Bill 1254 and Idaho's city	police	chiefs

I would like to make a couple of points about this bill.
First, I have no doubt that police chiefs all across the country would love it if everyone were unarmed and they had an effective monopoly on the use of force. That doesn't mean that it's best for you and I. 
Second, the question shouldn't be "should we allow guns on campus", it should be "is the situation on campus dire enough that we should infringe upon the right to bear arms despite their being a Constitutional amendment specifically forbidding such a thing"?
I haven't seen any arguments yet convincing me of that. Just a bunch of frat boy jokes. 
Paul
            
                
                    

                    
                        
                            
                            
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                                        Concerning SB 1254, I think we should try the economic argument against adoption. Just tell your congresspersons that the State of Idaho cannot afford the huge costs associated with the passage of this bill. It could cost millions to supply all the teachers, professors, staffers and campus visitors with the Kevlar vests that we will demand having in order to protect ourselves.  Bob Dickow, troublemaker  ------------------------------------  Masterson: ‘Why a police leader feels compelled to take his message directly to the people’Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson has sent out a guest opinion, entitled, “Why a police leader feels compelled to take his message directly to the people,” urging Idaho citizens to contact their legislators about SB 1254, the bill to allow guns on Idaho's public college campuses,
 where they're now banned. Masterson says he and three other police chiefs were blocked from <snip>…
                                    
                                
                            
                    
                
            

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