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Tuesday, April 24. 2007

Who expected this?

I can't believe Chuckie Cheese said this (piece at Cramer):

Hell is about to freeze over. Watch out for those flying pigs! I just saw Senator Schumer (D-NY) on The O'Reilly Factor admit that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. He went on to argue that the right isn't unlimited, just like the First Amendment "doesn't protect pornography." He even acknowledged that there is a right to defend yourself, and that can even include using a gun to do so.

This tells me that gun control is off the table. But where did he read that our Bill of Rights are not unlimited? Since when doesn't the First protect porn? Who gave govt the right to limit rights?

Freedom is not a gift of government. Freedom came first, and our government was designed and employed to protect it, right? Or am I confused?

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 14:01 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Right...I think Chucky is confusing personal 'responsibility and obligations' that comes with those freedoms with government limitation on freedoms.
#1 Phil G on 2007-04-24 18:16 (Reply)
Now that is one heck of a succinct and to-the-point comment.

You cannot have freedom without morality and character - and the govt cannot provide that.
#2 BD on 2007-04-24 18:30 (Reply)
Chucky Schumer is one of those characters who will be talking smoothly to your face as he puts a shiv in your back so watch out. I saw only the last half where he mentioned the NRA is with him. More Hell freezes over. The NRA website didn't mention anything. His is all about power, his power.
#3 grant1863 on 2007-04-24 20:25 (Reply)
Believe nothing that Schumer says. Strictly speaking, the First Amendment does not protect obscenity (which has a precise, legal meaning). The Supreme Court has never held otherwise, although from Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966) until 1973, the test of what constituted obscenity was so loose that for practical purposes, almost nothing was obscene. Even today, quite a bit of material is sold that violates both current state and federal obscenity statutes, and is only occasionally prosecuted.
#4 Clayton E. Cramer (Link) on 2007-04-24 21:51 (Reply)

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