Thursday, August 28, 2008
News Now, will Chambliss upset gun owners?
Posted by Ken Edelstein on Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:54 AM
Last year, Saxby Chambliss ticked off illegal-immigration fanatics by supporting President Bush's compromise immigration reform plan. Last month, he angered oil-drilling enthusiasts by backing a compromise plan for offshore drilling.
Now, let's see if he can upset gun nuts by opposing a push to require that guns be allowed in churches and schools
It's primarily a state issue — mainly because Congress isn't as beholden to the gun lobby as the Georgia Legislature is. But for some reason WALB-TV in Albany asked Chambliss about guns in schools and churches.
"Any measure relative to the use of guns in areas where historically guns haven't been allowed before, it's got to be approached very, very carefully," he told the station. "That's a state issue and one state legislatures are going to have to tread very carefully."
Oops, Saxby. Don't piss off another wacky GOP constituency.
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Since when is wanting to maintain a right guaranteed by the Constitution being nutty? That would be like opponents to limiting free speech by the Creative Loafing blog staff being a 'nutty constituency'.
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you mean permitted gun owners (aka "gun nuts") like Andisheh? Whatever you do, don't allow law abiding citizens to be armed in the two most popular locations where the real nuts go to shoot innocent people in large numbers. That would be stupid. I can tell by this knee jerk that your reflexes are in fine order.
The question is whether you think it's nutty to require schools and churches to allow people with guns to attend. I think that's nutty. I think most people think that's nutty. Although he couched it more politically, Saxby apparently thinks it's nutty, too.
Since it is easily proved that licensed gun owners are the least likely segment of society to commit crime, I am interested in the argument against the self-defense of people who must be present in these locations. How are these places different from a restaurant or a MARTA train? What other articles of the Bill of Rights are you willing to restrict without Constitutionally valid reasons? How about the one that allows you to earn your living today?
Why do I get the feeling that the state legislators will draw the line at bringing guns into the Capitol building while the General Assembly is in session?
Conservatives get so worked up about the absolutism of the Second Amendment, but when it comes to the First, Forth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments? Eh, not so much.
Dale: The Supreme Court -- y'know the court that for decades has had seven Republicans and two Democrats on it? -- has never ruled that restricting the use of handguns in churches and schools is unconstitutional.
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