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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 15:58:33 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:40:18 2013.

If you're trying to say that you have first amendment rights and you have second amendment rights, and why should you have to perform due diligence on one when you don't on the other, you have a point.

But ... that is the essential dichotomy that seems to be drawn between the 2nd amendment and every other one. If you were to say that the first amendment might not address a world with the internet, instant communication among adversaries, and mass communication as opposed to Ben Franklin's old hand-press and delivery by hoss, you will be ground to dust and compared to Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Olog.

But when you say the second amendment is [similarly] outmoded, you are on the side of the angels and entitled to ignore it.

Still, I think that the First Amendment is not absolute in some applications, and that the Second Amendment may allow you to purchase a pistol, but can have some reasonable requirements to carry one outside your home and in the public square.

I was required to carry a pistol in some of my regular duties, but I had to qualify on it on the range, and requalify after a year. When I didn't need it for official duties or to give it required TLC, it lived in the arms room where it could nap and talk to its fellow death-dealing armaments.

Similarly, if you owned a private weapon, you had to keep that in the arms room. If you wanted it, you had to check it out and check it back in when you were done. I never heard a single person complain about that.

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