Daily Archives: May 1, 2014

Common sense calls for repeal of second amendment

Posted: May 1, 2014 at 5:50 am

I dont believe the Second Amendment was ever intended to support the kind of gun craziness we contend with today, but since its always used to ward off any common-sense gun reforms, maybe we ought to just fix the Constitution and be done with it.

Yes, I know the odds against that are immense, but maybe we could start by nibbling away at the idea that the Constitution is infallible or that the founders had the answers to everything. They were smart men but neither perfect nor prescient.

One of the ways they showed how smart they were, was that they made a document that could be updated when it needed to be, and today it needs to be on this issue.

Weve had another of those disturbing clusters of shootings in Seattle the past week, and gun violence continues to injure and kill across the country in public, and frequently private, ways. Most gun deaths are suicides.

But some Americans embrace their guns even more tightly even as the headlines call out for sanity. You know what Im talking about.

Last week. Georgias governor signed into law a guns everywhere bill allowing residents of the state to carry guns anywhere in public, schools, churches, bars. You just never know when youll need to shoot someone.

We are already plagued by stand-your-ground laws and now this.

The law was deemed necessary partly because some cities and towns ban guns in most public places, which might seem reasonable if you want to cut down on gun violence, but Georgias leaders believed the answer was more people with more guns. I dont even think its politics anymore. Its a religion all its own.

Did you see the story earlier this week about a gun seller being threatened by gun lovers for trying to market a safer handgun? Belinda Padilla is CEO of the U.S. division of German firearms maker Armatix. Her company is marketing a biometric handgun that wont fire unless it is held by its owner, who has to be wearing a wristwatch that communicates with the gun.

The company wants to sell guns, not ban them, but gun lovers worry elected officials would say, gosh, maybe if every gun was safe like this, thered be fewer criminals shooting people with stolen guns. Thinking like that might lead to laws making it illegal to sell any other kind of gun, thereby depriving Americans of their accustomed freedom to more easily thwart law enforcement.

Read more here:

Common sense calls for repeal of second amendment

Posted in Second Amendment | Comments Off on Common sense calls for repeal of second amendment

ConLaw 1 Class 27 – The First Amendment – Free Exercise – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


ConLaw 1 Class 27 - The First Amendment - Free Exercise
Madison #39;s Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, Stansburg v. Marks, Wisconsin v. Yoder, Employment Division v. Smith , Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah,...

By: Josh Blackman

Read the original:

ConLaw 1 Class 27 - The First Amendment - Free Exercise - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on ConLaw 1 Class 27 – The First Amendment – Free Exercise – Video

Similarities Between The Two Clauses In The First Amendment – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


Similarities Between The Two Clauses In The First Amendment

By: Child Laws Juvenile Justice

Read the original:

Similarities Between The Two Clauses In The First Amendment - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Similarities Between The Two Clauses In The First Amendment – Video

Westfield Mayor to pay $53K in campaign sign violation case – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


Westfield Mayor to pay $53K in campaign sign violation case
Westfield Mayor Daniel Knapik on Monday accepted a federal judge #39;s ruling that he violated the First Amendment when he ordered campaign signs removed just before the 2011 municipal elections,...

By: WWLP-22News

Read the original here:

Westfield Mayor to pay $53K in campaign sign violation case - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Westfield Mayor to pay $53K in campaign sign violation case – Video

Opposition To Proposed Monitoring Of Hate Speech By Federal Agency The Kelly File – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


Opposition To Proposed Monitoring Of Hate Speech By Federal Agency The Kelly File
Opposition To Proposed Monitoring Of Hate Speech By Federal Agency - The Kelly File What Happened To The First Amendment? =========================================== **Please Click Below...

By: Mass Tea Party

More here:

Opposition To Proposed Monitoring Of Hate Speech By Federal Agency The Kelly File - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Opposition To Proposed Monitoring Of Hate Speech By Federal Agency The Kelly File – Video

INFOWARS Nightly News: with Lee Ann McAdoo Friday April 11 2014: Alex Jones/Special Report – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


INFOWARS Nightly News: with Lee Ann McAdoo Friday April 11 2014: Alex Jones/Special Report
Friday: The Infowars Nightly News. BLM Feds Assault More Protesters As #39;First Amendment Area #39; Taken Down. Plus. Sen. Sessions: #39;Deliberate Plan by President #39;. Tuesday: The Infowars Nightly...

By: Albert Dram

Read the rest here:

INFOWARS Nightly News: with Lee Ann McAdoo Friday April 11 2014: Alex Jones/Special Report - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on INFOWARS Nightly News: with Lee Ann McAdoo Friday April 11 2014: Alex Jones/Special Report – Video

America was just defeated from within TODAY 4/29/2014 – Martial law is next – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


America was just defeated from within TODAY 4/29/2014 - Martial law is next
We Just forfeited the FIRST Amendment and it was done by those who most need it and want it, Minorities. Because you insist on taking away the free Speech of one racist man, you will thereby...

By: David Vose

Read more:

America was just defeated from within TODAY 4/29/2014 - Martial law is next - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on America was just defeated from within TODAY 4/29/2014 – Martial law is next – Video

Retaining Government Power to Make Economic Policy for Internet Access: Role of the First Amendment – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


Retaining Government Power to Make Economic Policy for Internet Access: Role of the First Amendment
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) High-speed Internet access providers claim that government-imposed limitations on their activities raise serious constitutional concerns. But given the current...

By: University of California Television (UCTV)

Read more:

Retaining Government Power to Make Economic Policy for Internet Access: Role of the First Amendment - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Retaining Government Power to Make Economic Policy for Internet Access: Role of the First Amendment – Video

Donald Sterling is my HERO – Video

Posted: at 5:50 am


Donald Sterling is my HERO
Hes exercising his first amendment right . everyone relax!!!!

By: bettinman24

Follow this link:

Donald Sterling is my HERO - Video

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Donald Sterling is my HERO – Video

Former Supreme Court Justice Wants to Amend the Constitution

Posted: at 5:50 am

Apr 30, 2014 1:43pm

In his first appearance in front of Capitol Hill lawmakers in nearly 30 years, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens made a pitch today for a new amendment to the Constitution.

Neither the First Amendment nor any other provision of this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit the Congress or any state from imposing reasonable limits on the amount of money that candidates for public office, or their supporters, may spend in election campaigns, Stevens said in front of a Senate Rules Committee.

The amendment is a proposal he had included in his book Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, published earlier this month.

But the former justice, who retired from the court in 2010, argued his amendment is even more necessary in the wake of the recent McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling.

In a 5-4 ruling, the court struck down aggregate donation caps on campaign contributions on the basis that the limits violated the First Amendment protection of free speech.

Stevens agreed with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in arguing that classifying any amendment as absolute would do away with limits on acts like screaming fire in a crowded movie theater.

It is fundamentally wrong to assume that preventing corruption is the only justification for laws limiting the First Amendment rights of candidates and their supporters, Stevens said.

(AP Photo)

Shortly before Stevens took the stand, Schumer announced a plan by Senate Democrats to vote this year on a new constitutional amendment by Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., that would allow Congress to make laws restricting campaign finance contributions.

More here:

Former Supreme Court Justice Wants to Amend the Constitution

Posted in First Amendment | Comments Off on Former Supreme Court Justice Wants to Amend the Constitution