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What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights?

What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights?


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Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Pardon?

That has what to do with anything?

What does that grammar have to do with anything?

I wasn't responding to anyone, I was responding to the poll.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

So ... don't ban land mines and bazookas? :neutral:
Not sure how to take this response... Please clarify.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I guess the general public doesnt feel comfortable when excons who have killed people can legally buy guns and kill new innocent people.

I personally dont have a vested interest in saving american lives. I live in a relatively safe country.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I guess the general public doesnt feel comfortable when excons who have killed people can legally buy guns and kill new innocent people.

You can't punish people for crimes they did not commit or crimes that they may commit in the future.

I personally dont have a vested interest in saving american lives. I live in a relatively safe country.

I live in a relatively free country, I'll take that over "safe" any day.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Your free to be hanged in America. In the EU thats not possible, so your free to be unfree in America.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I guess the general public doesnt feel comfortable when excons who have killed people can legally buy guns and kill new innocent people.
Good news -- it is illegal for them to do so, and said restriction does not violate the constitution.

So.... what's your point?
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

some posters have contradicted your opinion. But thanks for the good news.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I guess the general public doesnt feel comfortable when excons who have killed people can legally buy guns and kill new innocent people.

I personally dont have a vested interest in saving american lives. I live in a relatively safe country.

anyone with a felony record is prohibited from buying a gun legally pursuant to federal law that has been on the books for more than forty years.

most people who have been convicted of killing other people tend to be rather old if and when they get out of jail


If such people are buying guns illegally, well another law wont change that.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Your free to be hanged in America. In the EU thats not possible, so your free to be unfree in America.

hanging is no longer being used to the best of my knowledge.

There are two kinds of freedom.

Free to roam the wilderness and to deal with wolves if they attack you

Or free to live penned up safe from the wolves but at the mercy of the farmer that keeps you in a pen.

I prefer being a well armed stag to a castrated sheep
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I prefer being a well armed stag to a castrated sheep
And thus, the difference between Americans and Europeons.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Your free to be hanged in America. In the EU thats not possible, so your free to be unfree in America.

The death penalty doesn't make us less free. In the end, here in America more of the rights and liberties of the individual are recognized than in your country. And our cops have to sometimes obey the law, unlike in the UK where they seemingly have free reign.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Your free to be hanged in America. In the EU thats not possible, so your free to be unfree in America.
This is astoundingly silly -- the presence or adsence of the death penalty in no way determines if the people of a country are free.

You REALLY need to try harder.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

If a judge makes a mistakes and hangs a innocent person, then its not possible to undo a wrong. If he has life and is later found innocent, he can be released and compensated.

For this reason, EU has abolished the death penalty and Russia has followed. Now America stands alone with China, Iran, North Korea and Somalia. Thank-you America.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

If a judge makes a mistakes and hangs a innocent person, then its not possible to undo a wrong. If he has life and is later found innocent, he can be released and compensated.

For this reason, EU has abolished the death penalty and Russia has followed. Now America stands alone with China, Iran, North Korea and Somalia. Thank-you America.

and Botswana, Chad, Comoros, The Congo, Egypt, Equitorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Sudan, Uganda, Afganistan, Bahrain, Bangaldesh, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, UAE, Vietnam, Yemen, Belarus, Cuba, Guatemala, St. Kitts and Nevis and Guyana.

i would say they hardly stand alone
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

We should have all the products the military has available to them available to us. I am wondering whether or not this includes nuclear weapons though.

It would be fun to set off small nuclear explosions in a large back yard....
 
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Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

If a judge makes a mistakes and hangs a innocent person, then its not possible to undo a wrong. If he has life and is later found innocent, he can be released and compensated.
This is an argument against the DP; it is not an example of how having the DP means you are not free.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

It would be fun to set off small nuclear explosions in a large back yard....
I just bought the Marshall Islands, so I have plenty of room.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

i would say they hardly stand alone
Never mind that "Now America stands alone with China, Iran, North Korea and Somalia" is a self-defeating statement.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Hopefully you all know that I don't think people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons. To many things can go wrong there (I do sometimes fantasize about those things though...)
I do think, though, that Americans should be able to be just as equipped as their government. This mainly comes out of my childhood fantasy of owning an M1 Abrams Tank...
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

I just bought the Marshall Islands, so I have plenty of room.

cool, I need room to set up a 2000M range for my Barrett
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Hopefully you all know that I don't think people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons. To many things can go wrong there (I do sometimes fantasize about those things though...)
I do think, though, that Americans should be able to be just as equipped as their government. This mainly comes out of my childhood fantasy of owning an M1 Abrams Tank...

Certainly all lawful citizens should be able to own anything other civilians can use in law enforcement. Since lawenforcement is about self defense, not offenisve attacks upon other nations, how can a politician say there is no useful reason for a doctor or cab driver to own a M16 yet some deputy sheriff is issued one

once we get that bottom limit established then we can talk about individual infantry weapons that transcend normal concepts of an individual weapon-such as a anti aircraft missile used by one soldier or a claymore mine.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights?

(some options may be slightly modified to fit in the poll.)

A license/permit required to exercise certain or all 1st amendment rights

A license/permit required to exercise certain or all 2nd amendment rights

Registration requirement of some or all of your books,newspaper and other 1st amendment related things

Registration requirement of some or all of your firearms and other weapons.

A ban on certain books,religions, what the press can report and etc.

A ban on certain weapons.

A ban on certain individuals from exercising 1st amendment rights

A ban on certain individuals form exercising 2nd amendment rights

A total ban on 1st amendment rights

A total ban on 2nd amendment rights

Only speech directly calling others to commit possible and probable acts of violence should rightly be band. IE a priest calling on his parishioners to kill abortion doctors for Jebus, the KKK calling on fellow klansmen to kill blacks, or radical Imam's calling on the ummah to kill infidels for Allahbaba. Repugnant speech; such as, that delivered by that imbred closeted homosexual Fred Phelps I think could and should be taken care of under state or local public nuisance and/or public disturbance ordinances.
 
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Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

cool, I need room to set up a 2000M range for my Barrett
If I had some such range, I'd have a Barrett. I can only shoot 500 here.
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

If I had some such range, I'd have a Barrett. I can only shoot 500 here.

Kind of like owning a ferrari and only being able to drive 70MPH
 
Re: What are reasonable restrictions/infringements on 1st and second amendment rights

Kind of like owning a ferrari and only being able to drive 70MPH
Pretty much. I's have had one long ago, if not for that.

You -can- shoot a .338/50 at the state/national matches, but you cannot use a muzzle brake, so...
 
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