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Because the bill of rights only applied to the federal government. It was not until the 14th amendment passed and the supreme court started to selectively incorporate the bill of rights against the states (in fact, not all of the bill of rights applies to states).
Yet another thread graphically illustrating the frightening fervor of the modern gun nut.
You are your own worst enemies in the political arena as fast-growing numbers of Americans have come to understand the difference between our world and that of our founders, the difference between our founders intent and today's gun-nut rhetoric, and the net liability to themselves that guns in the hands of the public have become.
And those of you who still cling to the laughable notion that your guns are going to protect you from "government tyranny" haven't been paying attention to what is fast closing in on us and tightening its grip every day. Your irrational gun fervor only emboldens and empowers the political forces on the fringe left that have already all but conquered us without coming anywhere near your front door.
you assume their is a difference between our world and the world of the founding father their is not, human nature has not and will not change.
we are not frightened, we are enlightenment by history and the countless horror stories of disarmed masses being enslavement, subjugated, made to dig ditches by the side of the road only to have said ditch become their graves.
So what? What does that have to to do with the substance of the ruling, and whether or not it was a good one?
It levied no tax on the right to bear arms. It levied a $200 transfer tax on all covered firearms, as well as an annual license tax of $200 on dealers, $300 on pawnbrokers, and $500 on manufacturers.
But it levied no taxes whatsoever on the firearm owner merely exercising his or her right to bear.
in part it is, and why should we tax the full usage of a right?
I'll up that, I'll trade abortion after 25 weeks for your internet privileges for 25 weeks.
You can keep your guns, just give me your WIFI
Deal???
Where is your liberal tolerance? shouldn't you be tolerant of his views, and his rights to spread his views?
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