WSJ devotes 1/2 page to lawyer Alan Gura

[ilbob]

Are you free to buy a firearm? Only if Big brother says you can.

In most states you can buy whatever you want as long as you are not a criminal. i agree the situation is imperfect, but for the most part you can buy all the guns you could ever use, with a few exceptions.

Are you free to grow what ever crop you want on your farm? Only what Big Brother says you can.

You can grow whatever you want with the exception of hemp and pot. There is no real market for hemp anyway, and whether you like it or not, pot is illegal in every state.

Are you free to add a room to your house? Only if Big Brother says you can.

Again, mostly you are free to do so, as long as you do so in a way that does not put others at risk, or devalue their property.

Do you own your home? Only if you continue to pay tribute (taxes) to Big Brother.

What should happen if you refuse to pay your taxes?

Are you free to educate your own children by teaching them yourself? Only if Big Brother says you can.

no state prohibits home schooling.

The Constitution starts out "WE the people..."

Hasn't been that way for quite a while now and the Heller decision with all it's double talk about reasonable restrictions does nothing to change it.

Gura tried. He won a small victory but the way the decision was written we've lost the war.

Gura did indeed win a small victory in this venue. It is the first victory in this venue ever. If the war you refer to is an unlimited right to keep and bear arms of whatever type you choose where ever you chose, that war was lost before the constitution was even written, much less the 2A. We have been losing small chunks of the RTKBA ever since the civil war. We will have to get them back the same way.

 

[Werewolf]

ilbob:

In every instance noted above [post #26] to do the things I mentioned you must ask permission of the government - in every case. Regarding home schooling - try keeping your kids out of school and teaching them at home without telling the school what you're doing. If you don't eventually the system will notice. It will then suck to be you.

The point is a free people don't have to ask permission. In the USA of today we've got to ask permission quite often. We're not nearly as free as our masters - and make no bones about it that is what they are - want us to believe we are.

Asking permission relegates an action to a privelidge not a right. Whether or not Big Brother mostly says yes is irrelevant. The act of having to ask permission is what makes us not as free as most believe.

 

[ilbob]

In every instance noted above [post #26] to do the things I mentioned you must ask permission of the government - in every case. Regarding home schooling - try keeping your kids out of school and teaching them at home without telling the school what you're doing.

In most of the cases cited above, you do not need permission so much as you must inform. there is a difference between the two situations.

of all the situations you cited i think the building addition situation is the most troubling as in most cases it does indeed require permission.

 

[Guntalk]

If you want to hear Alan Gura talking about the decision three days after it was delivered, here's the file.

Right click and save (Windows) or Control-click (Mac).

http://media.libsyn.com/media/guntalk/080629guntalkA.mp3