
Originally Posted by
thegodfather
It is really ashame that he even has to obtain a "PERMIT" in order to exercise a right. We certainly are not expected to get a permit when we want to speak our mind(1A), refuse a warrantless search(4A), refuse to testify against ourselves(5A), etc. If you need PERMISSION it implies that it is a privilege and not a right.
Anyway, there is no reason that he SHOULDN'T have his weapon with him. I'm sure many people have said, "You are in a school, you don't need a gun here!," and of course liberals have been proven wrong over and over again because schools are ripe with mass killings. The liberals oppose teachers carrying guns for self protection, and they even opposed PILOTS carrying firearms for personal protection. It is a shame, more rights for the perpetrators than for the victims.
Do we not need a permit for peaceful assembly in most instances? A permit in cases of dangerous weapons, IMO, is necessary. Do you honestly believe that anyone should own a gun? I'm not an anti gun advocate, not by any means. As a matter of fact, I probably own more firearms than 95% of the members of this forum or just about any NRA member, but I am an advocate of responsible gun ownership, so yes I do believe permits are necesary. Also, there is no proof that arming teachers would diminish school yard mass killings, just as there is no proof that armed church goers would have prevented attacks on them, in gyms, etc. Plus from what I understand, Godfather, it's not just the 'liberals' who oppose arming teachers but the loudest voice against arming teachers is the teacher's themselves. And just like you take offense to the overclassification of conservatives and republicans, I take offense to your overclassification of liberals. I'm about as liberal as they come and I'm all for Pilots carrying weapons. But I also went ot a high school that had many drive by shootings way before Columbine and there was no outrage about school killings in the innercity until it hit places like Columbine, but I'll still never advocate teachers carrying guns because I've seen way too many altercations between students and teachers, without weapons.
Have you ever heard the saying "If you don't use it you loose it." We need to exercise our rights every chance we get! We need to do this because of the current sad state of affairs in the United States. When was the last time you have been pulled over? If an Officer asks to search your vehicle and you refuse, he acts as if he is DEEPLY OFFENDED! It should NOT be this way. Americans have become so complacent in acquiescing to every whim of any person within the government establishment, that those civil SERVANTS have come to expect ordinary citizens to give up their rights at the behest of those servants.
I was actually pulled over recently and refused to have my vehicle searched but because my vehicle was being towed (because I my licensed plates and paperwork were stolen during a break-in) they could still search my vehicle without permission because they had to 'inventory' the items in my vehicle for their 'protection'. So the law is a little more detailed and complicated than you are letting on.
We need to exercise our rights at every opportunity in order to remind those who WE pay to serve US that those rights still exist, and that we are not ready to give them up, and that we will never give them up. It is typical liberal rhetoric to respect every right except for the 2A, that right, in their mind was a typo in the writing of the Constitution. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."