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Little Brother, you may be surprised to know that I was born in Ohio and we never locked our doors either; there was no need and the concept was foreign to us.
Like you, my father was a kind of 'contractor' (he gathered information) and I was then raised in quite a few countries overseas: Korea, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Turkey. My father, in fact, had confrontations with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who was still a minor Sargent at the time. The United States appeared to not take this man as a threat at the time and I remember my father being angry that his reports seemed to be falling on deaf ears.
It has also been a very long time since I lived in a 'crack' community and I'm not and have never been comfortable in a city environment.......too much dirty and confining concrete. I spend a great deal of time exploring what you apparently find in common with me, the woods, water and grandeur of Maryland's still surviving bits of wilderness. These have always been where I have found greatest peace and awe partly because I simply love them, but in part because I do a good bit of research, some published on the web here; I am a naturalist, my husband a professor of biology and animal behavior.
So, again Little Brother, I may have more in common with you than would make you comfortable. I do not, however, have big biceps.
Incredibly too, I DO agree with the 2nd amendment, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
2nd - The right to keep and bear arms, often referred as the right to bear arms or the right to have arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both. In this context, "arms" refers to a variety of weapons and armor and to "bear arms" meant to wage war.[1]
Meant to wage War has the keenest interest to me. Which does not constitute OC all the time, or to simply make a statement that may be misinterpreted as deliberate and provocative 'strutting', 'posturing', etc. I do believe that common sense, and responsible behavior must be clearly outlined in this regard. OC should never be a resort unless there is a clear, evident and obvious danger.
My concern is a healthy line that is safe for everyone, not just those who want to carry these. How do you decide who has the mental ability and stability to carry these openly? At what age? I'm reminded that it's the most vulnerable of any society that need most protection, yet these are the ones who will not be able to defend either because they are too young, too feeble, too ill, emotionally or intellectually so limited that they cannot reasonably be responsible.
If Dad or Mom is carrying openly, what do they do with these weapons when they are home with their children? Do they lock them up and so make everyone vulnerable again? At what point can their children be considered stable and rationally mature enough to hold anger, curiosity and play at bay?
I would also hope that you will not limit your qualified principals to just this one amendment either. A goodly proportion of our amendments are still unstable, given to continual ratification and not always clearly interpreted. Some of these still make me uncomfortable. The 15th and 19th affect still a lot of people and believe it or not, some wording is still dubious enough to cause effects later on down the line as far as child labor laws, women's rights, and even the interpretation of the 13th amendment which seems to violate some employment methods.
18th - 21st - Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by Twenty-first Amendment)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax
16th - Allows federal income tax
An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or business (corporations or other legal entities). Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
15th - and 19th Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Suffrage (from the Latin suffragium, meaning "voting tablet", and figuratively "right to vote", and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. It is also called "The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread." political franchise or simply the franchise. Suffrage may apply to elections, but also extends to initiatives and referendums. Suffrage is used to describe not only the legal right to vote, but also to the practical question of the opportunity to vote, which is sometimes denied those who have a legal right. In the United States, extensions of suffrage was part of Jacksonian democracy.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
13th - Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion. While laboring to benefit another occurs in the condition of slavery, involuntary servitude does not necessarily connote the complete lack of freedom experienced in chattel slavery; involuntary servitude may also refer to other forms of unfree labor. Involuntary servitude is not dependent upon compensation or its amount. (Voting rights for women were introduced into international law in 1948 when the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
2nd - The right to keep and bear arms, often referred as the right to bear arms or the right to have arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both. In this context, "arms" refers to a variety of weapons and armor and to "bear arms" meant to wage war.[1]
Little Brother, you may be surprised to know that I was born in Ohio and we never locked our doors either; there was no need and the concept was foreign to us.
Like you, my father was a kind of 'contractor' (he gathered information) and I was then raised in quite a few countries overseas: Korea, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Turkey. My father, in fact, had confrontations with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who was still a minor Sargent at the time. The United States appeared to not take this man as a threat at the time and I remember my father being angry that his reports seemed to be falling on deaf ears.
It has also been a very long time since I lived in a 'crack' community and I'm not and have never been comfortable in a city environment.......too much dirty and confining concrete. I spend a great deal of time exploring what you apparently find in common with me, the woods, water and grandeur of Maryland's still surviving bits of wilderness. These have always been where I have found greatest peace and awe partly because I simply love them, but in part because I do a good bit of research, some published on the web here; I am a naturalist, my husband a professor of biology and animal behavior.
So, again Little Brother, I may have more in common with you than would make you comfortable. I do not, however, have big biceps.
Incredibly too, I DO agree with the 2nd amendment, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
2nd - The right to keep and bear arms, often referred as the right to bear arms or the right to have arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both. In this context, "arms" refers to a variety of weapons and armor and to "bear arms" meant to wage war.[1]
Meant to wage War has the keenest interest to me. Which does not constitute OC all the time, or to simply make a statement that may be misinterpreted as deliberate and provocative 'strutting', 'posturing', etc. I do believe that common sense, and responsible behavior must be clearly outlined in this regard. OC should never be a resort unless there is a clear, evident and obvious danger.
My concern is a healthy line that is safe for everyone, not just those who want to carry these. How do you decide who has the mental ability and stability to carry these openly? At what age? I'm reminded that it's the most vulnerable of any society that need most protection, yet these are the ones who will not be able to defend either because they are too young, too feeble, too ill, emotionally or intellectually so limited that they cannot reasonably be responsible.
If Dad or Mom is carrying openly, what do they do with these weapons when they are home with their children? Do they lock them up and so make everyone vulnerable again? At what point can their children be considered stable and rationally mature enough to hold anger, curiosity and play at bay?
I would also hope that you will not limit your qualified principals to just this one amendment either. A goodly proportion of our amendments are still unstable, given to continual ratification and not always clearly interpreted. Some of these still make me uncomfortable. The 15th and 19th affect still a lot of people and believe it or not, some wording is still dubious enough to cause effects later on down the line as far as child labor laws, women's rights, and even the interpretation of the 13th amendment which seems to violate some employment methods.
18th - 21st - Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by Twenty-first Amendment)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax
16th - Allows federal income tax
An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or business (corporations or other legal entities). Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
15th - and 19th Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Suffrage (from the Latin suffragium, meaning "voting tablet", and figuratively "right to vote", and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. It is also called "The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread." political franchise or simply the franchise. Suffrage may apply to elections, but also extends to initiatives and referendums. Suffrage is used to describe not only the legal right to vote, but also to the practical question of the opportunity to vote, which is sometimes denied those who have a legal right. In the United States, extensions of suffrage was part of Jacksonian democracy.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
13th - Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion. While laboring to benefit another occurs in the condition of slavery, involuntary servitude does not necessarily connote the complete lack of freedom experienced in chattel slavery; involuntary servitude may also refer to other forms of unfree labor. Involuntary servitude is not dependent upon compensation or its amount. (Voting rights for women were introduced into international law in 1948 when the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
2nd - The right to keep and bear arms, often referred as the right to bear arms or the right to have arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both. In this context, "arms" refers to a variety of weapons and armor and to "bear arms" meant to wage war.[1]
