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Neal Rovick

St Anthony, MN
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Posted on 04/19/13 at 02:49 pm in response to Trouble ahead: Justices’ rulings on gun rights raise thorny questions

Tell the truth, now, were you fondling your gun when you said that?

At what point do comments like this pass over into incitement to perform illegal acts?

I "heavily" encourage you to get a grip.

Obama use executive privilege to eliminate the "2nd"?

Can you say, "fevered imaginings"? Is this what gets you up in the morning?

Posted on 04/17/13 at 09:47 am in response to Gun rights in the 1780s and today

It is interesting to note that in U S v. Cruickshank that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to bear arms 'for a lawful purpose"

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The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 09:47 am in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

The Articles of Confederation, with states operating with significant independence, proved to be insufficient to tie together the states into a united country. The Constitution was the second try, with the bill of rights being yet another attempts at addressing the remaining concerns.

What issues did the second amendment address? The states had a way of maintaining a military force to resist the tyranny of a central government. The nation gained a widespread military force to...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 11:12 am in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

Gun control inherent within militias (from Massachusetts Militia regulations)

....Every able-bodied male citizen, resident within this state, of the age of 18 years, and under the age of 45 years, excepting persons exempted by the following sections, idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, and persons convicted of any infamous crime, shall be enrolled in the militia. Persons so convicted after after enrolment shall forthwith be disenrolled.....

Sounds like a...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 12:04 pm in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

It is my personal opinion that the phrasing of the second amendment provided a way of eliding various issues that individual states had at that time. It's a very slippery phrasing. There are multiple reasons why any state might want an independent military, and it was not entirely clear at the beginning of the Union where the Union would be in a decade or two. Not all states or participants were 100% for a permanent union under a strong federal government.

Interesting reading is to...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 04:00 pm in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

Good luck in finding the "Do not alter" footnote in the Constitution.

Well, for something so explicit and obvious, there certainly are a lot of people who read it differently or pick one part of the sentence and ignore the other.

If there was an intent to have an unconditional right, why wasn't the amendment written in the short form, "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged."

Now that would be absolute and clear.

But it wasn't written that way....

Posted on 04/16/13 at 04:07 pm in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

Nice paraphrase--though it is odd how that pesky "well-regulated militia" part disappears.

Don't you think that the writers of that amendment would have omitted the part of the amendment that referred to the militia if they didn't want it in there? It would have been so obvious and so easy.

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. A+ for revision, though.

Posted on 04/12/13 at 09:07 am in response to U should separate from Fairview and hook up with Mayo

Yes, healthcare is the savior of Minnesota's economy--no worries there, eh?

It'll be just like having a Saks or Bloomingdales right in town.

All you need are enough paying customers.

Have any of these people reconciled the unaffordable nature of modern healthcare and the irony of building our future economy around that which is clearly unsustainable?

Posted on 04/11/13 at 10:38 am in response to Why is state health and human services spending growing so fast?

If this really is a surprise to the legislators they haven't been paying attention.

It's an 8 percent increase---shocking!!

Except for the fact that 8 percent is abut the rate at which health care costs have been rising at for years.

Health care costs will eat all budgets from now on unless costs are brought under control.

Cost control means less profits for those in the health care industry.

Cost control means changes in the type, timing and quantities of...

Posted on 04/11/13 at 11:08 am in response to Miffed legislators try to tackle both Vikings stadium and Mayo Clinic complications

In the days when the unaffordable nature of the current system of big healthcare is apparent even to the "shocked" legislators, the demand by Mayo for "mo' money" for even bigger healthcare grates as much as the Vikings stadium demands.

Which could the average Minnesotan better afford---4 hours at a Vikings game or 4 hours in an emergency room? One could kill you, the other could provide you with a new lease on life. You decide which.

But I am very uneasy about huge "...