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Re: The most dangerous sentence in Heller
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Originally Posted by John Drake
I don't see what public law has to do with it.
Look, you posit that people have a right, nay, a duty, to take up arms to 'defend liberty' if they believe they must, you further posit that it is up to each individual as to what constitutes an attack on liberty, as well as whether and how liberty needs defending.
So, what's to stop me from deciding that the local school teaching evolution requires that I go down and kill all the teachers and the students, that way they'll be rescued from the devil and all go to heaven and all that nasty communism they've been teaching, well we need to set an example.
Thusly, in my eyes, I defend freedom. How can you arrest me? I was doing my Constitutional duty, as you see it.
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I said nothing about a Constitutional duty. The Constitution, while important in our nation, is nothing more than ink on a page. It's you moral duty, as I see it, if you feel that strongly about the teaching of evolution. It is also the moral duty of everyone who cares about the welfare of those children(I'd like to think that that includes all of the teachers) to protect them from you.
The question of allowing those teachers to protect their students has been discussed at length.
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