13 by Tom The law is the law and the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. Every state in the union swore to uphold it. Slavery was outlawed via the Constitution. Women's voting rights were ratified by the Constitution. The US Supreme Court has defined what the 2nd Amendment means. PS There is no such thing as an "assault rifle.": It has no legal definition. Automatic weapons, such as the kind soldiers use are illegal for private use in the USA, and always have been. Semi automatic weapons are legal for sale in the US dependent on the state laws. Semi automatic means one trigger pull fires one bullet. In fact most gun regulations are state not federal laws. Illinois and by extension Chicago have the strictest gun regulations in the country. Chicago has the highest murder by gun rate followed by Washington DC who has the even stricter hand gun laws. Connecticut has very strict gun laws. Instead of looking at the NRA chart in connection with this, why not the ACLU? The American Civil Liberties Union helped defeat a bill in Connecticut this past September that would made it a lot easier to put people in mental institutions that are over the age of 18. It seems that under current law it is virtually impossible to commit someone unless they agree to go. The ACLU argued for the right to be crazy. Lanza's mother was filling out the endless forms and making preparations that perhaps she would not have had to do for her son. Some say this is the trigger for his actions. We'll never know. But it is possible he could have been hospitalized with less stringent requirements. Instead his mother and 25 others are dead. The NRA failed in Connecticut. The gun laws are far stricter than they would have liked. The ACLU succeeded. You're after the wrong organization. Quote Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:26 pm
14 by james_m hi tom, thanks for giving your perspective on this.. i was thinking how talking politics is not what this board is about.. i think it is fair for an alternative response be given and you've done just this.. finding a start time other then 1920 for the aclu seems very difficult to do.. if you come up with an incorporation date for them, please share it.. someone with access to princton university archives could possibly get it here.. http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collec ... 01/c002353 edit - i am finding jan 19 1920 new york.. the chart below is set for sunrise, in the absence of a specific time.. photo sharing websites Quote Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:42 pm