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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I recommend against being so assumptive. It can be embarrassing to all parties involved.
So you feel oppressed? Or at least you would if there were any restrictions on owning arms? Does this have to do with the fact that you don't trust your government, that you don't feel they respect your freedoms, that they aren't just? Does this mean, if I don't feel oppressed by not having access to any firearm I want, that perhaps my society is freer and more just? Is this all just individual perspective?
Is this more about your faith in government than about the integrity of individual rights?
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faith in government? I have none whatsoever. I have about as much faith in people as well. They'd sell their mother if the price was right or they felt it was needed. Cases in point, their fellow citizens would force people to sell their property and GIVE it to a NFL team owner in the hopes that it would increase city revenue.
Another case in point, the USSC directly....
The Michigan Supreme Court had found sobriety roadblocks to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment. However, by a 6-3 decision in Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz (1990), the United States Supreme Court found properly conducted sobriety checkpoints to be constitutional.
Although acknowledging that such checkpoints infringed on a constitutional right, Chief Justice Rehnquist argued that the state interest in reducing drunk driving outweighed this minor infringement.