Sunday, February 3, 2013

Rights stated in Amendments are not Absolute! They have limits

Here is a list of rights and restrictions placed on those rights.   With Free Speech, 1st Amendment, You DO NOT have the right to make an impromptu parade on a freeway.  2nd Amendment - YOU MAY NOT HAVE AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON LEGALLY or an F-16 with bombs..  Reasonable limits are set on our rights.  We have to decide what those reasonable limits are:  I think clips to 10 Max and no Semi-Auto Asssault Rifles that can kill more than 3 people a minute.

a bit from the article:  (Heller case)
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose:  For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

The bottom line here is that the Second Amendment isn’t special. As with other rights under the Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms is subject to reasonable limits. Anyone who argues otherwise is dead wrong.

http://messagingmatters.com/2013/01/31/second-amendment-and-other-constitutional-rights-are-not-absolute/

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