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Originally Posted by Winstonbiggs
The States have the right to regulate and in the State I live in every resident gets the right to vote.
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An outright ban is not a regulation. It's a ban.
You've not shown us any basis for the position that Constitutional Rights can (or should) be banned by a City or State.
Do you take the same position on say, Abortion (a non Constituional right)? Can a State regulate Abortion by banning it completely?
What about protests (speech)? Can a State "regulate" speech by banning all protest activity within it's borders?
What else can be "regulated" via a complete 100% ban, as you see it, yet is also a Constitutional or otherwsie accepted/legislated Right?
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The right to free speach as written only pertains to Congress, it's interpretation that extended those rights.
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Ah, nice to see you leaving open future arguments against the right to speech. Just in case an issue arrises where you want to silence someone elses opinions, I'd suppose.
You're the one making a case that rights can be banned completely as "regulation" as determined by a City council or State legislature.
I'm the one defending individual liberty, rights and freedoms.
I know which one I see as the wanna-be-Tyrant here. Unless you're going to accuse me of being a Tyrant of Freedom, forcing rights on those who don't want them and prefer to be managed and oppressed by a States 18% voter-turnout elected officals.......
I guess we see the world differently.
You see crime, and want to punish all people for it, the innocent law abiding majority as well as the perpetrator.
I see crime, and want to punish the criminal only. I see the theft of our rights as an even greater and far reaching crime than one worthless scmbag blowing another away with an illegal gun they'd have no matter what the laws or bans or regulations are.
Need an example? Pot was 100% banned for a long while. How'd than "regulation" work out?