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Gun Control & RKBA

TeddyR

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12. As is the right to keep and bear arms

Reply to stone space (Reply #10)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 08:32 AM

Apr 2016

In fact, the right to keep and bear arms was considered such a fundamentally important right - along with for example the right to free speech and freedom from illegal searches and seizures - that the founding fathers included an amendment in the bill of rights that prohibits government infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.

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Administration defends new gun law - $1,000 excise tax on pistols (CNMI - Mariana Islands) [View all] jonno99 Apr 2016 OP

Blatantly unconstitutional, and Prohibition-Proven® Counterproductive. Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #1

No, it's not. The $200 tax on full auto firearms effectively ended the sale of those weapons flamin lib Apr 2016 #2

that is true melm00se Apr 2016 #3

According to Heller the 2nd doesn't cover carrying any gun for any reason anywhere.nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #4

Again true melm00se Apr 2016 #5

True, just as the 1stA doesn't cover all speech everywhere. benEzra Apr 2016 #8

The 24th Amend (1964) prohibits a poll tax or any other tax... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #6

Hopefully the people will tell the "government" to FO. ileus Apr 2016 #7

A grand is cheap compared to what they really want. ileus Apr 2016 #9

Comparing the Right to Vote with somebody's hobby is offensive. stone space Apr 2016 #10

The site (DU) has an entire topic group for hobbies and recreational pursuits discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2016 #11

As is the right to keep and bear arms TeddyR Apr 2016 #12

The absense of a Right to Vote Amendment in the US Constitution does not mean that... stone space Apr 2016 #13

according to you beergood Apr 2016 #15

I'm not arguing that the right to vote isn't important and shouldn't be protected TeddyR Apr 2016 #17

But not so offensive that you'll stop making the comparison. beevul Apr 2016 #14

Sorry, yours is a vacuous argument - jonno99 Apr 2016 #16