Federal efforts to infringe the individual's right to keep and bear arms are unconstitutional.
States, on the other hand, are not bound by the 2nd Amendment, being limited in their authority to deal with weapons only by their own constitutions, some but not all of which contain provisions similar to the 2nd Amendment.
Pretty much everybody who has anything to say about gun rights and gun control is completely oblivious of those truths.
Or simply refuses them.
After Oregon, gun control could give Clinton clout against Sanders
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Crushed by convention
Ford's moral, if it is his and not only Dowell's, is trite.
Convention denies people what they want and so they are broken and miserable.
But it is not convention that ruins these people but the incompatibility of their desires and their flawed characters.
If Ford's story is a tragedy at all it is quite an old-fashioned one, so far as that goes.
Early on and more than once, later, he shows us that the happiness of his characters depends, again in classic style, on ignorance of their true relations, often deliberately maintained by those closest to them through plain deception.
Sophocles is not far off.
Reading The Good Soldier.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Not every problem has a solution
Once upon a time there was such a thing as The Pittsburgh Task Force to End Rape and Take Back the Night.
No kidding.
Which I mention in connection with the agitprop outburst for civilian disarmament immediately in the wake of the Oregon shootings.
No kidding.
Which I mention in connection with the agitprop outburst for civilian disarmament immediately in the wake of the Oregon shootings.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
The videos are for real
Claims they are fraudulent are fraudulent.
New Forensic Report Flushes Planned Parenthood’s “Highly Edited” Talking Point
New Forensic Report Flushes Planned Parenthood’s “Highly Edited” Talking Point
Campbell to Jamaicans: Get over it
An increasingly popular moralistic mooch.
David Cameron has ruled out making reparations for Britain's role in the historic slave trade and urged Caribbean countries to "move on".
The prime minister acknowledged that "these wounds run very deep" during his visit to Jamaica, where he faced calls to apologise from campaigners.
He said Britain's role in wiping slavery "off the face of our planet" should be remembered.
Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller said she had raised the issue in talks.
Not a buy signal
But the numbers for the major markets from July to September make for sobering reading.
• Dow - 7.9%
• FTSE 100 - 7.04%
• Dax - 11.74%
• Nikkei - 14.47%
• Shanghai Composite - 24.69%
Looks more like Bozo every day
Donald Trump has said he would send home all Syrian refugees the US accepts, if he becomes president.
The billionaire, who is the current frontrunner in the Republican race for the White House, told a New Hampshire rally: "If I win, they're going back."
It marks a reversal in policy - earlier this month he told Fox News the US should take in more refugees.
Give them an inch
Conscientious objection is a human right, he says in an unfamiliar context, talking about Kim Davis.
Not a liberal hero, today.
Pope 'met gay marriage row clerk'
Pope Francis's meeting with Kim Davis disappointed the liberals he courted
Antony Hegarty attacks pope for 'shameful and pathetic' meeting with Kim Davis
Chauncey Gardner strikes again.
P.S.
It's not at all just about gay marriage, it's part of the whole conservative "religious freedom" campaign, a line of propaganda the Vatican has made its own.
Kim Davis meeting aligns with Pope Francis's message of religious freedom
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