Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-06 Thread Tim May
At 9:24 PM -0500 11/6/00, David Honig wrote: >At 02:13 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: >> I just can't think of anything >>the law requires me to have in my house. As it should be. > >* running water Nope, no such law. >* N toilets per hectare Nope. >* electricity Are you just making this s

Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-06 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Honig wrote: >At 02:13 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: >> I just can't think of anything >>the law requires me to have in my house. As it should be. > >* running water >* N toilets per hectare >* electricity >* walls, stairs, floors made to certain state minima (stan

Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-06 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 20:18 -0500 11/5/00, Steven Furlong wrote: >The supremes have decided, in their wisdom, that the amendments to the >federal constitution apply to the states as well. Thus, the 1st >amendment prohibits states as well as the feds from regulating speech. Not a question of wisdom- the 14th basicly

Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-06 Thread David Honig
At 02:13 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: > I just can't think of anything >the law requires me to have in my house. As it should be. * running water * N toilets per hectare * electricity * walls, stairs, floors made to certain state minima (standards) * N metres of terra between A and B

Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-05 Thread jim bell
- Original Message - X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Steven Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 17:18 PM Subject: Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ... > > > While I adm

Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

2000-11-05 Thread Steven Furlong
> Yes, while it would be unconstitutional for the federal government to >pass this law, how could it be unconstitutional as a local or state >statute? I'm not sure it would be unconstitutional for the federal gov't to pass such a law, unless you rely on the widely-ignored 10th Amendment. (The