1) What if the gun bill did not "close" all those gun stores, but rather shut them down temporarily until they, say, moved all the guns behind the counter, kept the ammunition locked away, and installed a computer to help with background checks? Because that's effectively what the Texas bill does.
2) What if the right to bear arms was as explicit as the right to an abortion? Namely, that the right to bear arms was created as a form of the right to privacy, or in the other direction, that a right to an abortion was an amendment in the Constitution. To assume that abortion = guns in terms of rights ignores the continuing debate on the logic and intellectual legitimacy of Roe v. Wade, many of who agree with keeping abortion legal and think the Court made a poor leap.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2013-07-06 02:05 pm (UTC)1) What if the gun bill did not "close" all those gun stores, but rather shut them down temporarily until they, say, moved all the guns behind the counter, kept the ammunition locked away, and installed a computer to help with background checks? Because that's effectively what the Texas bill does.
2) What if the right to bear arms was as explicit as the right to an abortion? Namely, that the right to bear arms was created as a form of the right to privacy, or in the other direction, that a right to an abortion was an amendment in the Constitution. To assume that abortion = guns in terms of rights ignores the continuing debate on the logic and intellectual legitimacy of Roe v. Wade, many of who agree with keeping abortion legal and think the Court made a poor leap.
Terrible comparison is terrible.