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Kilted Geor.. (1)
November 4, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  grumpy
Category: News and Politics
If you're scratching your head over the title of this post, don't be embarrassed. However, Darrell A.H. Miller of the University of Cincinnati College of Law has put forth a dangerous proposal for the government to treat guns and pornography the same way.

Click here to read Miller's abstract and download the article in PDF format.

In short, Miller wants a "home-bound" approach to the Second Amendment in which your right to own a gun, like your First Amendment right to read Hustler, is "a right that ends at the doorstep," leaving local, state, and Federal government agencies with "nearly unfettered discretion" to forbid guns anywhere outside the home. Concealed-carry could be abolished, the use of firearms for hunting could be subject to the most grueling and pointless of regulations, etc.

Zakariah Johnson, Media Director of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, had a few thoughts upon learning of Miller's proposed framework:

On the line between being clever and merely being a smart ass, it's clear where Miller falls. What it comes down to is you either respect the law and the Constitution or you don't. If you don't, then nothing stops you from finding cute run-arounds to subvert its protections, as Miller has attempted. This sort of thing is intellectually shameless, and ought to embarrass the author.

Your humble Webmaster couldn't have said it any better.
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Kilted Georgist
Jay Sears

 
Kudos are to Zakariah Johnson, not Darrell Miller, of course. 
 
Posted by Kilted Georgist on November 5, 2009 - Thursday - 4:07 PM
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Jake

 
Leave it to Cincinnati...
 
Posted by Jake on November 8, 2009 - Sunday - 7:54 PM
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Jurjen

 
Mr. Miller seems to be under some serious misapprehensions regarding the law as it applies to material that appeals to the prurient interest. It's not like there's a law against possessing pornographic material in public, as long as it's in a bag, or under your jacket, or some other place covered up. Yes, your right to have a copy out and open in public so that anyone can see the full gynecological spread is limited, but then again, you don't have the right to draw your sidearm and discharge it in public either. Basically, Mr. Miller doesn't quite seem to grasp the distinction between possession and use.

 
Posted by Jurjen on November 14, 2009 - Saturday - 3:29 AM
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