Comments on: What’s Next? The Legal Questions: Part Three http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/tushnet/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: MaverickNH http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/tushnet/#comment-141748 MaverickNH Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:12:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/tushnet/#comment-141748 "They might conclude that specific local circumstances – a high rate of gun violence, extreme difficulties in ensuring that guns owned by law-abiding people aren’t stolen and then used by criminals – might make a local ban reasonable." It would be quite simple then for any locality to ban firearms by first allowing crime rates to soar. How can the failure of government to protect the people justify taking away the people's ability to protect themselves? “They might conclude that specific local circumstances – a high rate of gun violence, extreme difficulties in ensuring that guns owned by law-abiding people aren’t stolen and then used by criminals – might make a local ban reasonable.”

It would be quite simple then for any locality to ban firearms by first allowing crime rates to soar. How can the failure of government to protect the people justify taking away the people’s ability to protect themselves?

]]> By: Saul Clipperberg http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/tushnet/#comment-46632 Saul Clipperberg Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:39:03 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/09/tushnet/#comment-46632 When I was a young lad and we would hunt for food, we didn't use guns. We would kill the pterodactyl with a big rock! Oh, I'm old! How's that for you, Sparky? When I was a young lad and we would hunt for food, we didn’t use guns. We would kill the pterodactyl with a big rock! Oh, I’m old! How’s that for you, Sparky?

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