Quote Originally Posted by Eow View Post
It is really sad for me to see stuff like this posted on this forum. If the second amendment is treated with respect anywhere, it should be here. SA Friday, should we also require people to pay for a government permit proving they have taken sensitivity training classes before they are allowed to exercise their first amendment right to free speech?

How can you possibly support the idea of a basic right (not a privilege like driving a car, an individual constitutional right) like this being subject to the government administering and issuing a permit? Don't you believe in the freedoms our forefathers fought and died for? As Benjamin Franklin said: "Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither".
When you ND your mouth, you don't blow a hole in something.

As for putting a basic limitation on a constitutional right, it happens all the time. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater and claim that's covered by the first ammendment after someone is trampled to death. I'm not proposing or discussing a limitation on a constitutional right. I'm advocating competence.

If you feel so strongly about your constitutional right being violated by a basic test, then you should also feel that one should be able to just carry a loaded pistol when ever they wanted and shouldn't require a CCW. I'm cool with that. Try out some civil disobedience with that one and let me know how it turns out.

As for insinuating I'm in any way disrespecting the 2nd ammendment based on my opinion, you're way off base. Check yourself. Disagree with me, debate with me. Don't in one breath tell me how I'm disrespecting the 2nd ammendment, but how awful it is that I can voice my opinion here on this forum in accordance with the 1st ammendment.