Virginiaplanter
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Mr. Levy has written an opinion piece today against the passage of Florida's trend setting law that forbids employers from banning employees from possessing firearms in their cars. You can bet that he will lobby the same when the Virginia General Assembly takes up the issue.
Mr. Levy States:
"But the "Take Your Guns to Work" law signed by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist last week, with vigorous backing from the National Rifle Association, has nothing to do with the Second Amendment.
It has everything to do with violating the rights of private property owners.
....But I am even more confident that the court would never consider whether the Second Amendment prevents a private company from banning firearms on its property. Quite simply, that question does not implicate the U.S. Constitution."
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/22/na-employers-must-pull-the-trigger/
One of the first laws by the Virginia General Assembly in 1623 which Mr. Levy has brushed aside was :
" That men go not to worke in the ground without their arms (and a centinell upon them)."
This was a law that applied to all property both public or private and to both master and servant alike. It was a part of a Well Regulated militia which is not divorced from the second part, the right of the people to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment.
""I don't see how there's any, any, any contradiction between reading the second clause as a -- as a personal guarantee and reading the first one as assuring the existence of a militia, not necessarily a State-managed militia because the militia that resisted the British was not State- managed. But why isn't it perfectly plausible, indeed reasonable, to assume that since the framers knew that the way militias were destroyed by tyrants in the past was not by passing a law against militias, but by taking away the people's weapons -- that was the way militias were destroyed. The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." - Justice Scalia
The militia is composed of the body of the people. The militia is to be ready at all times to repel invasions and insurrections and enforce the laws of the Commonwealth. The take your guns to work laws in 1623 and 2008 assures a well regulated militia always in readiness.
Mr. Levy has written an opinion piece today against the passage of Florida's trend setting law that forbids employers from banning employees from possessing firearms in their cars. You can bet that he will lobby the same when the Virginia General Assembly takes up the issue.
Mr. Levy States:
"But the "Take Your Guns to Work" law signed by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist last week, with vigorous backing from the National Rifle Association, has nothing to do with the Second Amendment.
It has everything to do with violating the rights of private property owners.
....But I am even more confident that the court would never consider whether the Second Amendment prevents a private company from banning firearms on its property. Quite simply, that question does not implicate the U.S. Constitution."
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/22/na-employers-must-pull-the-trigger/
One of the first laws by the Virginia General Assembly in 1623 which Mr. Levy has brushed aside was :
" That men go not to worke in the ground without their arms (and a centinell upon them)."
This was a law that applied to all property both public or private and to both master and servant alike. It was a part of a Well Regulated militia which is not divorced from the second part, the right of the people to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment.
""I don't see how there's any, any, any contradiction between reading the second clause as a -- as a personal guarantee and reading the first one as assuring the existence of a militia, not necessarily a State-managed militia because the militia that resisted the British was not State- managed. But why isn't it perfectly plausible, indeed reasonable, to assume that since the framers knew that the way militias were destroyed by tyrants in the past was not by passing a law against militias, but by taking away the people's weapons -- that was the way militias were destroyed. The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." - Justice Scalia
The militia is composed of the body of the people. The militia is to be ready at all times to repel invasions and insurrections and enforce the laws of the Commonwealth. The take your guns to work laws in 1623 and 2008 assures a well regulated militia always in readiness.