Comments on: RNS Quote of the Day: 12/31/09 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=8599 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: BadIdeaGuy http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=8599#comment-440354 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:40:40 +0000 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=8599#comment-440354 If "some hypothetical need for household defense" was the threshold for legal firearm ownership, which they seem to be granting as what they'd be willing to accept, it doesn't matter. An angry felon with a 30-06 or shotgun could take out cops. Of course, once they got their arbitrary threshold, they'd move the goal line anyway. I don't trust newspapers with their own <i>patron</i> Constitutional amendment, I certainly don't trust them with mine. If “some hypothetical need for household defense” was the threshold for legal firearm ownership, which they seem to be granting as what they’d be willing to accept, it doesn’t matter. An angry felon with a 30-06 or shotgun could take out cops.

Of course, once they got their arbitrary threshold, they’d move the goal line anyway.

I don’t trust newspapers with their own patron Constitutional amendment, I certainly don’t trust them with mine.

]]> by: DFWMTX http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=8599#comment-440089 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:31:11 +0000 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=8599#comment-440089 Let's switch a few things around and see how they like it: "A constitutional right to own a <i>book</i> does not carry a subsequent right to put others at risk, or to amass a personal <i>library</i> with an <i>intellectual</i> capacity beyond some hypothetical need for household <i>education</i>." Switch the focus from 2nd to 1st ammendment and their limiting constitutional right screed goes a full 180. Except for the intellectually dishonest, who follow the words of that great progressive, mentor to Che Guevera, Joseph Stalin: "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns; why should we let them have ideas?" These are the folks who only want free speech for themselves, and not for you, only want freedom of the press for anyone divulging classified information to MSNBC, but none for FOX. Let’s switch a few things around and see how they like it:

“A constitutional right to own a book does not carry a subsequent right to put others at risk, or to amass a personal library with an intellectual capacity beyond some hypothetical need for household education.”

Switch the focus from 2nd to 1st ammendment and their limiting constitutional right screed goes a full 180. Except for the intellectually dishonest, who follow the words of that great progressive, mentor to Che Guevera, Joseph Stalin: “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns; why should we let them have ideas?” These are the folks who only want free speech for themselves, and not for you, only want freedom of the press for anyone divulging classified information to MSNBC, but none for FOX.

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