03-02-2018, 08:24 PM
(03-02-2018, 04:38 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: For a bartender to refuse a drink that endangers or a men's store to refuse to stock pink underwear, fine. For Walmart to limit its gun sales is fine. I have trouble, though, if you can't get a weapon at any store, if the corporations try to void a basic right through their own choice. For example, some women have trouble exercising rights to health care of certain types at certain places, and the courts sometimes have to step in to prevent prejudice.
Laws, federal, state or local, make little difference. If a right exists as clearly as the 2nd, any law infringing on the right to keep and bear arms should be unconstitutional. Limitation of rights if the life or rights of another are put at risk is allowed if due process is honored.
It is a matter of rights and law. The will of the majority does not override the rights of the individual. This is basic to our legal system.
It's not a clear right, of course. Only since the extremist Court was put in place by today's regressive party, has the right to bear arms been interpreted as an individual right. This Court was created by the majority of voters who put the extremist party in the White House. It can be overturned by a majority that puts a moderate progressive in the White House instead. Checks and balances.
It's not a "basic right" to buy a weapon of war. Exactly which models constitute one, is the argument the gun advocates still use to try to confuse the issue.
As I said to Classic Xer, if the gun advocates wish to contest the right of a store to limit the age at which someone can buy a gun, they can do so.
Meanwhile, many stores and transportation companies are demonstrating that they have a conscience. I hope more of the people who support gun rights will develop one too, if Parkland is indeed a tipping point.
If the gun advocates and gun crazies are right, as they keep insisting, the dedicated mass murderers and other criminals will find a way to get their phallic symbols to assuage their male inadequacy and act out their frustrations at the expense of peoples' lives. And they can still steal some from the owners of the remaining guns, or borrow them from their Mommy's or Daddy's collection. But, making it harder to get these macho substitutes will save some lives.