Vegas and Automatic Weapons

[scottw]

Originally Posted by detbuch

OK. We seem to be getting somewhere. There's farther to go and I'm too tired to go there at this moment. I think ScottW is getting there with his posts. You and he might arrive at the sweet spot in the debate. But, at the least, if you're shifting away from the federal government's attempt at gun control, then we're getting somewhere. Now you can campaign for Connecticut gun control, and quit jumping on the bandwagon for federal control.

I guess I assume some understanding of limits of federal power and States rights...and you guys were doing a fine job trying to e'splain....I'm bothered by the characterization of individual Rights/Freedoms as something that can be preemptively limited by or lost to government whim for higher purposes

Connecticut has a lot of "restrictions" already

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

.I'm bothered by the characterization of individual Rights/Freedoms as something that can be preemptively limited by or lost to government whim for higher purposes

You can be bothered by it, of course. The founding fathers apparently were not, or they would not have banned possession of firearms on the VA campus. Some of the same guys who wrote the Constitution, implemented that ban. Tells me that they were OK with the constitutionality of that ban.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

You can be bothered by it, of course. The founding fathers apparently were not, or they would not have banned possession of firearms on the VA campus. Some of the same guys who wrote the Constitution, implemented that ban. Tells me that they were OK with the constitutionality of that ban.

if you write that one more time I am going to punch you...and that's a threat!