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Re: Why can't I exercise my 2nd Ammendment rights at the airport? Nothing in the history and traditions of our founding fathers cites air travel - Today

It's very much a TSA/DoT restriction. And they can justify it because everyone gets screened at a minimum with metal detectors, and their carry-ons X-rayed, so theoretically no one is armed, good people or bad people. Now, the TSA regs are palliative, to be honest, but they are at least trying. The historic restrictions on courtrooms/legislative facilities that can be sensitive places is a

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Re: Why can't I exercise my 2nd Ammendment rights at the airport? Nothing in the history and traditions of our founding fathers cites air travel - Today

Nothing in the 1st Amendment protects phones, or the internet either. But it is understood that as tech changes, those Rights take this into account. Rights protecting against unreasonable search and seizure have obviously been extended to electronic devices and communications, and so has the 2nd been expanded to modern arms like stun guns (Caetano 2016) And you can carry at the airport, o

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - Yesterday

Quotemattkime QuoteSmote when is ignoring the law ever defensible? When the law is morally wrong. like laws that protect the guilty?

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - Yesterday

QuoteTiangou QuoteSmote that has never been a legal defense. The solution is to change the law. "It is no defense simply to claim that one’s criminal conduct was morally right." You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern... One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws a

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - Yesterday

A State not liking a SCOTUS ruling so they do anything they can to not comply? SCOTUS not interfering is in essence a nod to the original ruling. There is very little reason for SCOTUS to actually adjudicate a case unless the lower courts got it wrong, or different Appeals Circuits have different decisions of the same issues (split circuits) SCOTUS overturns lower courts 71.4% of the time.

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - Yesterday

that has never been a legal defense. The solution is to change the law. "It is no defense simply to claim that one’s criminal conduct was morally right."

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - 2 days ago

when is ignoring the law ever defensible? We are talking Civil Rights here. A Right Delayed is a Right Denied.

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Re: SCOTUS will not let Alabama ignore it - 2 days ago

You do understand that this is exactly what California, NY, Illinois and WA do when they get a SCOTUS ruling they don't like don't you? Ignore it, slow walk remanded cases, look for loopholes and work arounds? Judges ignoring SCOTUS rulings and procedures laid out in precedents. But when its to your benefit, you applaud it. Hypocrisy. edit. I missed Oregon on that list.

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Re: Presidential candidate goes gun shopping, but oops not eligible to purchase - 2 days ago

I just read the law and 18USC 922n says (n) It shall be unlawful for any person who is under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm or ammunition or receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. no mention of violence, so SCOT

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Re: Presidential candidate goes gun shopping, but oops not eligible to purchase - 3 days ago

Quotemattkime QuoteSmote one thing I have never heard, is if the "under indictment" actually disqualifies you, because you haven't been judged guilty yet. It's one of the 922g issues SCOTUS will be dealing with next session. Maybe it puts you in a file somewhere that if you are judged guilty, the DoJ/ATF comes for a visit. No idea. Hypothetical- you’re indicted for murder, can

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Re: Presidential candidate goes gun shopping, but oops not eligible to purchase - 3 days ago

one thing I have never heard, is if the "under indictment" actually disqualifies you, because you haven't been judged guilty yet. It's one of the 922g issues SCOTUS will be dealing with next session. Maybe it puts you in a file somewhere that if you are judged guilty, the DoJ/ATF comes for a visit. No idea.

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Re: Biden suggests we murder people - 3 days ago

QuoteRolando QuoteSmote That is a phenomenally irresponsible thing for a president to say. 2018 He was a private citizen, former Senator, former VP. fair enough. That is a phenomenally irresponsible thing for a former VP to say. Most be a hunting buddy of Dick Cheney.

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Re: Biden suggests we murder people - 3 days ago

QuoteDeusxMac An old gun-hugger meme (but that’s no real surprise.) What's True Biden did once say, " you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door." And that is still a phenomenally irresponsible thing for a president to say, under any context.

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Re: Biden suggests we murder people - 3 days ago

That is a phenomenally irresponsible thing for a president to say.

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Re: Lowes answer to retail theft - 3 days ago

QuoteFritz wonder how CostCo does in this scenario as I have seen a lot of the same staff for years. I understand that they are good to work for of that kind. It's the foundation of their business model to hire good people, treat them well, and pay them properly. They don't have retention issues, which really helps with training budgets. And employees not pissed off at management don't st

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Re: President Carter and Rosalyn make an appearence at Plains Peanut Festival - 4 days ago

Lot of respect for that man, and what he and his wife have done over the decades.

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Re: Justice Kagan on board with an ethics code for the Supremos - 4 days ago

Will Justice Kagan still be taking free trips?

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Re: Good guys and gals with guns - 4 days ago

"Crime happens a lot. One recent estimate holds that guns are needed defensively approximately 1,670,000 times a year.33 Another report, originally commissioned and long cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there are between 500,000 and 3,000,000 defensive gun uses in the United States every year.34 Woe to the victim who runs out of ammunition before armed a

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Re: Gun violence down in Chicago for 2023 - 5 days ago

QuoteMr645 Also media driven by false claims from our puppet president who claims a 96% increase in revoked FFL licenses but failed to include this is due to the Biden administration's zero tolerance for errors. Most of these dealers were revoked due to insignificant clerical errors in storing paperwork. Same administration claims "over 500 gun dealers shut down", and sales to inclu

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Re: Stainless Steel Soap?! - 5 days ago

we use a big stainless steel ladle. It works.

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Re: Driver died after Google Maps led him off a collapsed bridge - 6 days ago

"Over the years, locals put concrete barricades and cones around the collapsed bridge in an effort to deter drivers, but that evening on Sept. 30, 2022, Paxson could not see the barricades and drove off the 20-foot drop that the Snow Creek Bridge once covered."

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Re: If the flight is late... how late before you have the right to a refund? - 6 days ago

there are federal regulations. You can probably find them online. Be prepared for the airline rep to lie, or tell half truths. Be very polite and see what they volunteer, already knowing what they are required to do. They could offer more than required, so let them offer first. Their policy has no bearing on federal law. correction, delays/cancellations, no bumping, yes

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Re: California Magazine Ban Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional By Judge Benitez! Duncan v. Bonta - 6 days ago

"One government solution to a few mad men with guns is a law that makes into criminals responsible, law-abiding people wanting larger magazines simply to protect themselves. The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament of the law-abiding citizen. That kind of a solution is

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Re: California Magazine Ban Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional By Judge Benitez! Duncan v. Bonta - 6 days ago

Both the Oregon and Washington magazine bans are in litigation, and this ruling can be used as a convincing argument by their plaintiffs. Same with Illinois and at least 1 east coast state.

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Re: Gun violence down in Chicago for 2023 - 6 days ago

QuoteMr645 Can't buy a gun in any of those states with an Illinois ID, although it's easy to trade a gun for drugs or sex on many street corners and alleys in Chicago People choose not to acknowledge the process details because it doesn't fit their world view. Same with how many "rogue gun dealers" there really are.

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Re: California Magazine Ban Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional By Judge Benitez! Duncan v. Bonta - 6 days ago

should be hitting mainstream news this evening. He has been working on this for years, and previously, it had been granted cert by SCOTUS, but then kicked back down after Bruen for reconsideration. His attention to detail and doing this by the book is so it has the best chance of holding up under appeals. Next up is the assault weapon ban, and the handgun roster, and I know he is in the

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California Magazine Ban Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional By Judge Benitez! Duncan v. Bonta - 6 days ago

but because the news comes from me, it must be false.

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Re: extra ad-on?!....'Amazon Prime Video' adding something -> commercials/ads.... - 6 days ago

I hope there will be a browser plug-in that bypasses them like they already have for freevee. Previously they just bypassed completely, but recently they just auto fast-forward.

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Re: Good adults with a gun - 6 days ago

another one "Police said the man walked into the store, saw Deas with a gun in his hand and demanded he drop the weapon and get on the floor. Deas complied with the orders, while the other suspect fled." didn't even need to fire, so it probably doesn't count. And the robbers gun was stolen, of course.

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Re: Oops, happened again, good guy wins - 6 days ago

I never mentioned firearm or gun until right now, nor am I pushing any agenda here except that dismissing something solely based on the "speaker" or where something is posted is very limiting, especially if they cite their source material, and it is sound and reputable. If a clown gives you cardiac advice, is his info wrong? Does it suddenly become valid when you see his board certi

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