<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Every other piece of machinery or heavy equipment that could kill someone is regulated and controlled so people don't needlessly get killed or injured. Why not semiautomatic weapons as well? </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" id=yiv572894626>Actually I agree with you to an extent. There are two issues:<BR><BR>1/ CAN we ban (say) semiautomatics?<BR><BR>2/ SHOULD we ban (say) semiautomatics?<BR><BR>I have argued "Yes" to (1). But I agree with you that if our ONLY reason to ban (say) semiautomatics is because it is an "ineffective balm for the few," then of course the answer to (2) would be "No." We would need a MUCH better reason to ban semiautomatics. So this much we are in agreement.<BR><BR>You seem to think that the answer to (1) is "No," that having gun rights makes any form of gun control unconstitutional. That is the NRA view. That view strikes me as crazy for reasons I've stated. Why think it is correct?<BR><BR>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv572894626gmail_quote>On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Gary Crabtree <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>I don't recall frivolity or the lack thereof being mentioned in the constitution as a mitigating factor for the depravation of a right for a whole group of law abiding citizens.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>An individual can have a right denied for cause (felons, lunatics, and the feeble minded) but to deprive the many as an ineffective balm for the few should be fought tooth and nail.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 02, 2013 10:09 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=godshatter@yahoo.com href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">Paul Rumelhart</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com%3E" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com%3E">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com%3E</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>You are assuming that any ban is frivolous. Why assume that? Certainly banning guns just to make people feel better is wrong. But presumably there are reasons offered in supporting some guns that are not frivolous.</DIV>
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<DIV>"Curtailing my speech by prohibiting me from slanderous public comments is not a violation of my rights since I never had the right to harm your interests in the first place. I can speak freely ... up to a point. Essentially a right is something you can do so long as it doesn't bump up against the rights and interests of others. Because NO ONE has a right to do wrong. "</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>A similar restriction on firearms use is already in place. It is illegal to use your second amendment right to harm others in almost every instance save self defense. To ban certain weapons arbitrarily due to their potential for misuse is akin to banning the publication, distribution, and possession of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets because they occasionally violate the rights of others by committing libel or defamation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Rights are rights. Laws define their misuse. A right that can be taken away from one group to make another group feel better is no right at all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 02, 2013 4:28 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I've told you this before but you don't seem to be listening: any right can be violated for the right reason; there is NO right to do X regardless; all rights have limitations given their nature. You can't allow people the right to violate the rights of others, for instance. Thus, when rights bump up against each other, one of them has to give. <BR><BR>And it says "the right of the people ... shall not be violated" not "folks can own whatever kind of gun they wish, and for whatever reason or purpose." Curtailing my speech by prohibiting me from slanderous public comments is not a violation of my rights since I never had the right to harm your interests in the first place. I can speak freely ... up to a point. Essentially a right is something you can do so long as it doesn't bump up against the rights and interests of others. Because NO ONE has a right to do wrong. <BR><BR>This point seems very clear. I've made it over and over. If you
could spot the flaw in the argument, I'd be interested to know what it is. But you won't even talk about. You just keep making the same false claim about gun rights, over and over again.<BR><BR>
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<DIV><BR>My idea doesn't match the current narrative going around, eh?<BR><BR>The Bill of Rights, of which the 2nd Amendment is one, doesn't give us any rights. They are already ours. All it does is limit what the government can do with regards to those rights. For example, for the 1st Amendment, it's "Congress shall make no law...". For the 4th Amendment it's "The right of the people ... shall not be violated". In the case of the 2nd Amendment, that limit is "the right of the people ... shall not infringed". The well regulated militia part is explanatory, a reason why the "shall not infringe" part was put there.<BR><BR>I'm having a hard time reconciling the word "ban" with the words "the right of the people ... shall not be infringed". They appear to be diametrically opposed to each other, to me. But then I guess I don't drink the Kool-aid.<SPAN><FONT color=#888888><BR><BR>Paul</FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV>You have a faulty understanding of the notion of a constitutional right.</DIV>
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<DIV>1/ ban those guns too maybe</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>If only there was some Constitutional backing for that. If that still matters, anymore.<BR><BR>
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<DIV><BR>You know, I could get behind these attempts to portray people who are against the assault weapons ban as sociopaths or schizophrenics, if it weren't for the following things:<BR><BR>1. If the proponents of these bans weren't so disingenuous with their wording. "Assault weapon" is a look-and-feel definition, not a usage-based one. A Ruger Mini 14 is just as deadly in a spree shooting as an AR15, but it's not considered an "assault weapon" because it doesn't look enough like a movie prop. I've both made this kind of comment on this list before and have seen it made here many times. I haven't seen anyone answer it. What is the use of banning a weapon based on how military it looks? Why ban guns with barrel shrouds? All they do is keep you from burning yourself on the barrel. Or bayonet mounts? Are we really worried about the latest rash of gun stabbings? My conclusion: it's only
useful politically.<BR><BR>2. If they weren't so intent to ride the "think of the children" wave. If the deaths of school children should be driving our behaviors, then how about we overhaul the drone program? Lots of children are dying every day via drones, all OK'd by our sitting President. I posted an article about that a few days ago, I think. So why is the outrage over Newtown driving the assault weapons ban but there is no outrage over drone-killings? The only differences I can see are that the Newtown angle has been in the news non-stop while there is very little reporting on personally sanctioned assassinations by our President and that the children killed by drones are brown and not white. "Foreign" and not "domestic", if that makes you sleep better. Also, every new gun-related incident gets center stage attention, as if these kinds of tragedies haven't been happening all the time. Suddenly,
a switch is thrown and we're all outraged about them.<BR><BR>Now, I can get behind better background checks. I'd like to see more focus on how we can keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill as well, as long as we're careful about people's rights so a random Joe can't be suddenly labeled "mentally ill" because he or she owns an AR15 or for some other trumped up reason. Better databases covering gun sales would also make sense, though I can understand the concerns that if they know about your guns they can also come take them away. More training on gun handling and safety would also not go amiss.<BR><BR>But this push to ban "assault weapons" is blatant political theater. The magazine size restrictions are idiotic, as well. It takes a second to swap a magazine if you've practiced it a few times. Pick up the magazine, release the current one and let it drop, shove the new one home. <BR><BR>tl;dr version: gun
control is currently all about political expediency when it should be all about actual effectiveness.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>On 02/02/2013 09:26 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:<BR></DIV>
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