tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post4280591099621451026..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Justice Scalia Offers Some Comments on Gun Control While Hawking his new BookAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-31270944779110295052012-08-05T11:55:36.392+02:002012-08-05T11:55:36.392+02:00FL said, "But all and all I think I have main...FL said, "But all and all I think I have maintained a higher level of decorum than the welcome I was given."<br /><br />Yes, you have and I thank you for it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-38565808313478046672012-08-05T04:24:43.971+02:002012-08-05T04:24:43.971+02:00Mikeb, are you suggesting that communication hasn&...Mikeb, are you suggesting that communication hasn't changed in important ways since the writing of the Constitution? The fact that you live in Italy and I in Arkansas, but we can exchange words instantly suggests otherwise. In addition, why exactly do you see speech and religion as eternal rights, but self-defense and property as things that change?Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-85080804815377088542012-08-04T16:50:43.445+02:002012-08-04T16:50:43.445+02:00And don't forget, my first introduction to you...And don't forget, my first introduction to your blog were the following reply's:<br /><br />"Brwahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Please keep coming back. You sound like a fun guy."<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Don't make me laugh. My stomach still hurts from your other comment."<br /><br />So, I am human a may sometimes fail to resist all temptation to lash out in postings ... especially ones where we go three full rounds talking about the same numbers and getting nowhere (http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-many-dgus-are-really-legit.html).<br /><br />But all and all I think I have maintained a higher level of decorum than the welcome I was given.Frail Libertyhttp://twitter.com/frail_libertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-56639061457850074812012-08-04T16:44:00.603+02:002012-08-04T16:44:00.603+02:00Well like I said, we can argue about those things ...Well like I said, we can argue about those things all day long. But that wasn't the topic of this thread ... was it? <br /><br />The primary topic of the thread had been the intended meaning of the 2A. And so when I attempted to bring facts relevant to that discussion, you called it "nonsense" and starting categorizing the belief system of the founder's themselves.<br /><br />That is clearly a diversion and that is what I referred to as being sad ... because it is.Frail Libertyhttp://twitter.com/frail_libertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-48878091026057521972012-08-04T09:47:54.130+02:002012-08-04T09:47:54.130+02:00Oh, is it really so sad? What's so sad is your...Oh, is it really so sad? What's so sad is your attempt at condescension as a pud-down tool. Is that the way you argue straight up?<br /><br />The argument that the founders intended individual rights when the wrote the 2A may or may not have merit. But, everything about the issue is anachronistic. Unlike the 1A, which speaks of eternal non-changing ideas like freedom of speech and religion, the 2A talks about guns and gun ownership, something that has changed too much over the last 2+ centuries to have any meaning at all today.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-83390327665243978452012-08-03T16:15:50.014+02:002012-08-03T16:15:50.014+02:00Thanks Greg,
That is what I figured … diversionar...Thanks Greg,<br /><br />That is what I figured … diversionary ... just like the discussions in the other posts.<br /><br />This particular comment thread was about the intent and application of the second amendment. Specifically whether it was intended for private ownership of firearms and self defense or only for support of the militia. So I listed quite a few quotes from the founding fathers that unquestionably show that the intent was indeed to ensure private ownership of firearms and what do I get as a response … the founder fathers were sexist and racist. Diversionary!<br /><br />Now we can certainly talk all day about the belief systems of the founding fathers and where they stood in relation to the times in which they lived. They can even argue that because they were sexist and racist that the whole bill or rights should be rewritten. All of that would be valid for discussion.<br /><br />But none of that obscures or changes the FACT that the founding fathers intended the second amendment to cover personal ownership of firearms … because they came right out and said it … and that was the topic of this comment thread.<br /><br />So sad really.Frail Libertyhttp://twitter.com/frail_libertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-62639823596793635552012-08-02T16:33:42.047+02:002012-08-02T16:33:42.047+02:00Frail Liberty, what you'll find is a long seri...Frail Liberty, what you'll find is a long series of comments about how the founders of this country aren't worthy of our respect, how they really meant to get a new aristocracy going, and so forth.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-53944577238000871862012-08-02T15:52:59.639+02:002012-08-02T15:52:59.639+02:00I thought I might be - I will search for those.I thought I might be - I will search for those.Frail Libertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-90736668708459283262012-08-02T10:07:00.397+02:002012-08-02T10:07:00.397+02:00You are a little late to the party. We've bee...You are a little late to the party. We've been answering nonsense like that for years. Look at the archives before you start quoting the slave-owning, misogynists to us by cherry picking selected texts out of context.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-13218076603263169372012-08-02T06:31:45.601+02:002012-08-02T06:31:45.601+02:00Hmm. It seems I am a little late to the party. Bu...Hmm. It seems I am a little late to the party. But I do, indeed, seem to be lacking some edumocation.<br /><br />So I was wondering, Sir Laci the Dog Sir, if the second amendment was indeed only intended to apply to militia's; if you might take a moment explain to me why our founding fathers are quoted as saying some such of the following:<br /><br />The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their *OWN* arms. -Samuel Adams - U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788 [*emphasis mine*]<br /><br />No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms. -Thomas Jefferson<br /><br />Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or *PRIVATE SELF-DEFENSE*. -John Adams [*emphasis mine*]<br /><br />[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -James Madison<br /><br />Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -Thomas Jefferson<br /><br />The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. -Patrick Henry<br /><br />... cause I might just be dim-witted, but it sure seems to me like all of these men seemed to think that the constitution was protecting private ownership of firearms.Frail Libertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-27724985161707027002012-08-02T02:40:00.306+02:002012-08-02T02:40:00.306+02:00You're describing yourself, Dog Gone.
By the ...You're describing yourself, Dog Gone.<br /><br />By the way, I like Scalia's description of textualism. That sounds like what in literary theory is called New Criticism--the approach that I use in analyzing texts in my field.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-32472300069348378572012-07-31T18:22:08.464+02:002012-07-31T18:22:08.464+02:00Laci, I must hang out with more cultured and polit...Laci, I must hang out with more cultured and polite people than you, since you're the first person I've ever heard use the word "fuckwit."Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-84838188338826097602012-07-31T18:20:26.559+02:002012-07-31T18:20:26.559+02:00Thus the need for multiple approaches to secure ou...Thus the need for multiple approaches to secure our gun rights.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-78516234964917202302012-07-31T08:07:35.493+02:002012-07-31T08:07:35.493+02:00I thought Justice Scalia was less than supporting ...I thought Justice Scalia was less than supporting to the arguments of the gun-rights fanatics. As he said, "we'll see."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-39405398143309693392012-07-31T07:27:14.520+02:002012-07-31T07:27:14.520+02:00Let's see: Someone calls me a fuckwit, but ex...Let's see: Someone calls me a fuckwit, but expects me to believe what he has to say to me. Right. But here's a few facts:<br /><br />1. The courts, including the Supreme Court, agree more with us than with you. Have you given any time to Judge Legg's ruling in Maryland?<br /><br />2. Legislatures around the country also agree with us. Both Federal and state law is going more an more toward our side.<br /><br />3. The vast majority of gun owners in this country couldn't care less about how <i>you</i> interpret the Second Amendment.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-26550291475764943692012-07-31T01:38:21.947+02:002012-07-31T01:38:21.947+02:00Pooch says. "BTW, Orrin Shithead, where does ...Pooch says. "BTW, Orrin Shithead, where does the term "palladium of liberty" come from and what does it refer to?<br /><br />And it refers to "Common Defence", not personal."<br /><br />Next thing you'll tell me is that the Bill of Rights isn't meant to defend INDIVIDUAL Rights.<br /><br />But, if you wish to argue with St. George Tucker and his reasoning that ". . The right of self defence is the first law of nature", thus the palladium of liberty.<br />Go right ahead and continue exposing yourself as an empty headed sciolist.<br />your friend<br />orlin sellersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-54510110771205578082012-07-31T00:38:39.118+02:002012-07-31T00:38:39.118+02:00As I said, Greg, you can't say something witho...As I said, Greg, you can't say something without showing us you are a fuckwit.<br /><br />The term "People" is reflexive that is it relates to the topic mentioned.<br /><br />So, the right of the people to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment refers to the Militia--thus the Second Amendment is seen as a "whole"<br /><br />The rights if the people in the respective amendments refer back to the classes that are addressed in each amendment.<br /><br />No, citizen does not apply to people since people who are here as foreign nationals are also entitled to these rights.<br /><br />The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people.<br /><br />Since the Second Amendment addresses the "right to keep and bear arms" that right is not addressed by the Tenth Amendment.<br /><br />Furthermore, as understood at the time of the founding, the doctrine of self-defence stated that lethal force was a last resort only to be used after all other options had failed and if there was no other reasonable option.<br /><br />Greg, it's not that you disagree with me, but that you are so obviously ignorant of the topic.<br /><br />Yet, you still try to argue with someone who knows more about that subject than you do.<br /><br />So, I don't feel any need to be "polite" to you since you are too clueless to "get" anything I say.<br /><br />Instead, you continue to pontificate in your ignorant way which only highlights the fact that you are ignorant.<br /><br />I could go on and on about how little you know about this topic, yet you will still blather on in your particularly ignorant fashion ignaorant of your ignorance, Greg.<br /><br />So, the easiest way to tell you what you are is to call you a fuckwit.<br /><br />Yet, you are still too ignorant to understand what precisely that means.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-59999556537531528492012-07-30T23:59:58.714+02:002012-07-30T23:59:58.714+02:00The Fourth and Fifth Amendments protect "the ...The Fourth and Fifth Amendments protect "the people" from unlimited state power in criminal proceedings. They require the government to have good cause before entering a citizen's home or going to trial, and they restrain the government from demanding that a person provide evidence against himself. But how about "the people" in the First and Tenth Amendments? Are those only referring to criminals?<br /><br />Regarding what you call a term of art, you said that "the people" refers to a group of people having a connection to the nation when used in the Constitution. It's best for a definition not to use the word in question to define the word in question, but the easiest way to put what you wrote is one word: citizens.<br /><br />But what we see here is that as always, you're incapable of having a polite conversation with anyone who disagrees with you. Rather than addressing points raised, you curse and yell and insult. Do you do the same to juries? How about judges who rule against your motions?Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-83203859653097998042012-07-30T23:35:51.801+02:002012-07-30T23:35:51.801+02:00BTW, Orrin Shithead, where does the term "pal...BTW, Orrin Shithead, where does the term "palladium of liberty" come from and what does it refer to?<br /><br />And it refers to "Common Defence", not personal.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-91044764221861534972012-07-30T23:34:45.445+02:002012-07-30T23:34:45.445+02:00Seller, I'm not "your friend"
I pre...Seller, I'm not "your friend"<br /><br />I prefer people who are intelligent for friends.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-40029061350328039232012-07-30T23:34:04.150+02:002012-07-30T23:34:04.150+02:00BTW, Greg shithead Camp,
The Second Amendment als...BTW, Greg shithead Camp,<br /><br />The Second Amendment also refers to "the Security of the Free State".<br /><br />Now, fit that into your fuckwitted comment about "statism".<br /><br />The Second Amendment is as "statist" as you can get.<br /><br />It even mentions "the State".Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-86839739295524702022012-07-30T23:32:20.211+02:002012-07-30T23:32:20.211+02:00Greg, See above. But, I repeat:
Greg, to hoist y...Greg, See above. But, I repeat:<br /><br />Greg, to hoist you with your own petard, the term People in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments relates to CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS!<br /><br />Now, are you saying that the term "People" in the Second Amendment includes criminals?<br /><br />You are stuck with that interpretation if you say the term "People" refers to the same group throughout the US Constitution!<br /><br />That means that convicted felons have the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.<br /><br />Likewise, does the term "We the People" refer to the entire US population?<br /><br />Short answer, to try and keep it simple for you, Greg, is that the term "people" is a term of art which refers to a group of people having a connection to the nation when used in the Constitution.<br /><br />As I said before, This isn't poetry, this isn't literature, this isn't grammar, this is LAW<br /><br />Got that L A W, LAW?<br /><br />This is a different discipline? Do you understand what that means, or does that go beyond your remedial reading skills?<br /><br />Then, Greg, you go to the ultimate dumb comment:<br /><br /><i>If the right were to be limited to the state militias, why doesn't the amendment name them as holding the right?</i><br /><br />But, it does say the right relates to the militia.<br /><br />The right to keep and bear arms relates to the well regulated militia.<br /><br />WTF, does Statist mean?<br /><br />Greg, I think you are a statist since a piece of shit wimp like you would last less than a nanosecond without some form of government to have protected your sorry arse.<br /><br />And don't think that having a gun would help you, unless you are even more of a fuckwit than I give you credit for being.<br /><br />Is your head so far up your ass that you don't know what's going on in Syria?<br /><br />I know you are too stupid to know what Halabja was.<br /><br />You can talk "statist" all you want, you need a state to protect you from the goblins and bogeymen out there.<br /><br />But, Greg, the bottom line is that you talk a lot of shit which only shows you up for being an ignorant fuckwit who <b>NEEDS</b> remedial reading, not teach it.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-5283504107897116962012-07-30T23:30:41.943+02:002012-07-30T23:30:41.943+02:00Pooch, I'll give you this, you are consistent ...Pooch, I'll give you this, you are consistent with your fallacies.<br /><br />BTW, the palladium of liberty was in regards to the 2A. <br /><br />your friend<br />orlin sellersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-47857449576942747842012-07-30T23:22:46.950+02:002012-07-30T23:22:46.950+02:00I repeat:
Short answer:
Greg, try to say somethi...I repeat:<br /><br />Short answer:<br /><br />Greg, try to say something which shows me you aren't a total feeb.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-16673248388825981872012-07-30T23:22:42.135+02:002012-07-30T23:22:42.135+02:00Laci, you failed to answer my question. "The...Laci, you failed to answer my question. "The people" isn't a confusing term. It means the citizens of the United States. The phrase means that in every other amendment that I listed--and you ignored--and a logical person would conclude that it means the same thing in the Second Amendment.<br /><br />But let's take a grammatically equivalent sentence: Vitamin C being necessary to a healthy life, the right of the people to keep and eat lemons shall not be infringed.<br /><br />If that were in the Constitution, would you then tell me that I have no right to use lemons in a martini or a pie? Again, the well-regulated clause may explain why the Framers felt the need to include the amendment, but it doesn't limit the right expressed in the keep and bear clause.<br /><br />If the right were to be limited to the state militias, why doesn't the amendment name them as holding the right? Why be unclear and name "the people" as having it? But really, the better question is why do you and other statists insist on torturing the plain language of the Constitution to mean something more amenable to control?Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com