What did Aristotle say, few laws but well understood?
Okay, I think it's a misdemeanor, but by driving on the main thoroughfare in my tiny town, I violated the Gun Free School Zone Act (GFSZA) of 1996. As a concealed weapon permit holder, I'm allowed to have a loaded firearm in my vehicle. The main artery for the town, Route 25, is almost certainly less than the 1000-foot distance from the elementary school (where my wife works and three of my children attend) that the legislation--based on an interpretation of the Commerce Clause no longer legally au courant--stipulates as the closest one may venture when possessing a loaded firearm.
Basically GFSZA nullifies CCW licenses in my town--and many others where schools are very close to heavily traveled roads. And the problem can become quite ridiculous when school zones buttress one another in densely packed areas, as Jacob Sullum wrote in Reason Magazine in 2006.
The rushed legislation in response to the horrible Columbine massacre in Colorado needs to be torpedoed on constitutional grounds, exactly like its predecessor was.
Remember the Free-stater with the open gun at the school event when the President spoke in Portsmouth? He was on private property, but the police made him stay a 1000 feet away from the building.
Pity this aide in Maine. The officials went lenient on her, but the consequences of job loss and extensive embarrassing media coverage were harsh. And the district attorney spoke of "the privilege" of having a CCW license.
Gee, all this time I mistakenly considered it an inalienable one. You know God-given, not to be bartered away. Seth Lipsky, whom I heard interviewed by Milt Rosenberg, has a new book out, The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide, espousing "the plain-language school of the law." He says we're at a moment in history where we're on the verge--"a Constitutional Moment"--of ditching the whole concept of "enumerated powers." What are the?, the typical person might ask.
They are those things gubmit is entrusted with. Nothing more but those. But Nancy Pelosi considers such talk ridiculous. Though I have to admit since gubmit already spends forty-seven cents of every dollar, we've long been traveling the social welfare model of Europe.
Okay, I think it's a misdemeanor, but by driving on the main thoroughfare in my tiny town, I violated the Gun Free School Zone Act (GFSZA) of 1996. As a concealed weapon permit holder, I'm allowed to have a loaded firearm in my vehicle. The main artery for the town, Route 25, is almost certainly less than the 1000-foot distance from the elementary school (where my wife works and three of my children attend) that the legislation--based on an interpretation of the Commerce Clause no longer legally au courant--stipulates as the closest one may venture when possessing a loaded firearm.
Basically GFSZA nullifies CCW licenses in my town--and many others where schools are very close to heavily traveled roads. And the problem can become quite ridiculous when school zones buttress one another in densely packed areas, as Jacob Sullum wrote in Reason Magazine in 2006.
The rushed legislation in response to the horrible Columbine massacre in Colorado needs to be torpedoed on constitutional grounds, exactly like its predecessor was.
Remember the Free-stater with the open gun at the school event when the President spoke in Portsmouth? He was on private property, but the police made him stay a 1000 feet away from the building.
Pity this aide in Maine. The officials went lenient on her, but the consequences of job loss and extensive embarrassing media coverage were harsh. And the district attorney spoke of "the privilege" of having a CCW license.
Gee, all this time I mistakenly considered it an inalienable one. You know God-given, not to be bartered away. Seth Lipsky, whom I heard interviewed by Milt Rosenberg, has a new book out, The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide, espousing "the plain-language school of the law." He says we're at a moment in history where we're on the verge--"a Constitutional Moment"--of ditching the whole concept of "enumerated powers." What are the?, the typical person might ask.
They are those things gubmit is entrusted with. Nothing more but those. But Nancy Pelosi considers such talk ridiculous. Though I have to admit since gubmit already spends forty-seven cents of every dollar, we've long been traveling the social welfare model of Europe.
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