National School Walkout

[rogue06]

If by property, you're speaking specifically of "a dangerous, lethal firearm," and if the moment it's determined includes a determination that the person is emotionally or in some other sense psychologically unstable, then yes.

[Juvenal]

I'd be open to compensating them for the financial hit.

This was a 'should we" question.

Should we allow the government to ...

The premise allows for changing things we don't like.

Because of its propensity to do damage, that car would have to be insured around here, which brings up yet another possible line of regulation.

[rogue06]

I'd be open to compensating them for the financial hit.

Expanding imminent domain to cover things like cars and firearms is a great idea

[Juvenal]

Expanding imminent domain to cover things like cars and firearms is a great idea

*eminent

Not that that's accurate either.

We've done buybacks before, and straight up confiscation as well.

Enforcing insurance is a good idea, too. Victims deserve compensation.

[rogue06]

*eminent

I, uh, meant that. Yeah. That's it.

And even Obama's cash for clunkers didn't force folks to turn their older cars over (I didn't and later sold it for double what the government had offered two years earlier).

[JimL]

Amazing observation considering that the Constitution itself provides the mechanism for altering it.

What's next? A big announcement concerning your discovery that water is wet?

Yes, I know, it just seems we have to remind some of you out there of that.

[rogue06]

Yes, I know, it just seems we have to remind some of you out there of that.

Now if you could just some of your friend on the left to realize this rather than continuing to pretend that it is a "living document" where you just make up what it says and means for whatever situation arises.

[JimL]

Now if you could just some of your friend on the left to realize this rather than continuing to pretend that it is a "living document" where you just make up what it says and means for whatever situation arises.

No one is making up what it says, it's called interpretation. The 2nd amendment doesn't say that the right to keep and bear arms is limited, thats not even in the document, but the SCOTUS, using common sense, has made that determination itself. Well, the document also doesn't say that the right is a natural right, that isn't dependent upon the times and circumstances of its writing. As a people, we could repeal the whole thing if we wished to, though few are suggesting that.

[Jedidiah]

There's no better place to begin if we're interested in preventing terrorists, foreign and home-grown, from getting guns.

It's a sensible idea.

Not perfect, but sensible.

If the no fly lists need fixing, fix them.

Get them out of thee hands of the politicians.