I think the weapons requirement is an excellent idea. It has worked in other cities that have refused to adequately fund the police.

I'm guessing veryone wold be a lot more polite too if they knew everyone was packing heat!

I don't know exactly what the law is, but people pack in Asheville, NC. You can shop in the jewelry stores well into the night. All the clerks are carrying. Restaurants stay open late and the ice cream parlours do a good business with kids on Saturday nights. The first thing you notice in a typical restaurant is all the guns on the tables. Your weapon just can't be concealed is all, and you can't be intoxicated. I don't think you can even be served. Most are holstered plainly on the hip. Occasionally, you'll see a shoulder harnass, but it's either a cop or someone just puttin' on airs. They have crime, certainly, just not much downtown as I recall, where people tended to be polite even to Yankee citiots.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees our right to own a gun. Why not wear it if you want to? Why all this "concealed" permit business? Why conceal it?

Use of the term "concealed carry" in regards to MN statutes is a misnomer. Nothing in statute requires concealment of your legally carried firearm. I think most people that carry in MN conceal because they (1) think they have to; and (2) they wouldn't want to unduly frighten the control freaks that consider firearms themselves to be possessed of evil.

Eracus said: "The U.S. Constitution guarantees our right to own a gun."

Out of curiosity, if the Bench had a majority of (I can't recall the proper name) judges that believed the Constitution should be interpretted with the understanding of the time in which it was written, would the right to gun ownership be overturned since it says, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." With particular emphasis to the "well regulated militia part."

Fulcrum

Fulcrum:

1) I think the term you were looking for was "Justices"

2) Why should the phrase "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" be interpreted to modify or restrict the second part of the amendment?

What if there had been an amendment stating:
"A well educated electorate being necessary to the self-governance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."
Would that mean that the "right" of the people to keep books could be restricted if we no longer had compulsary education?

Judicial intrepretation is a funny thing. See Dred Scott v. Sanford for a constitutional interpretation based on original intent.

Fulcrum

You need to read "The Embarassing Second Amendment" by U of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson. Levinson - a self-described liberal and non-gunny - pretty well shreds the "well regulated militia" case for gun control, largely BECAUSE the contemporary understanding of militia was "everyone knows how to shoot".

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html

BR: I know the terms Justices shoudl have been used instead of judges, but the word I was looking for was the one that describes Justices who believe the Constitution should be interpretted based upon original intent....this made me wonder what the phrase, "A well regulated militia." meant back then.

And i agree with you here, "Judicial intrepretation is a funny thing. See Dred Scott v. Sanford for a constitutional interpretation based on original intent."

How can Justices be taken seriously with a stance like that? How does a Justice interpret the constitutionality of issues that our Founding Fathers could not even have dreamt of, say...the Internet?

Fulcrum

The reader comment Rambix posted was brilliant! Glad you linked to it, Mitch.

One thing - I don't think you should say he's trolling for ideas. Makes me think of that idiot coward Angry Clown.

How about "soliciting?" No, too University Avenue. How about "begging?" No, too Hennepin Avenue.

Wish I were a brilliant English genius, then I could come up with a great word, for sure.

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