CrimeStoppers

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Someone get a straight jacket.

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he media and left politicians tell them they have a right and should be doing this…there is no middle ground when there are laws that allow this….

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The First Amendment includes the right of peaceable assembly. As long as they weren't in the restaurant, they were well within their rights to be where they were.

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I mean, such a crazy notion as men marrying each other was not even fathomable by our Founding Fathers...

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The emancipation of African slaves imported and sold on auction blocks in the colonies and in new Southern territories wasn't something contemplated by the Founding Fathers, either, because they owned them as property.

This "states rights" argument is always a slippery slope and subjects some Americans to the whims of the majority in their states. That never ends well.

That poll is believable.

All of the witnesses that have offered live testimony in the hearing are conservative Republicans (don't know about the Capitol police officer who provided testimony), including a retired conservative federal judge for whom John Eastman (who took the 5th over 100 times in his deposition) was a law clerk.

In "Trump World," it may seem like the poll is not believable, but in reality based, non-clinically insane America, the poll is believable.

Why?

"We must have law and order." - Donald Trump, 2016 Campaign

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Has there ever been a more egotistical, dishonest, thieving, perverted human being to rise to the highest office in the land?

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Yep. Good ol' one-term, two times impeached, Trump.

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I don't exactly understand why there should be legacy costs at all considering St. George will still be paying their 3% into the parish coffers, which should cover parish employees.

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The judgment states that St. George would be paying 2% to parish coffers for the legacy costs, or $48 million. Legacy costs are $51 million, which would leave St. George with a $3 million shortfall. You don't make up that $3 million without some tax increase.

Also, it also appears that with the incorporation of a city this large (greater than 50,000), a St. George City PD would have to be formed, along with a city council and school board.

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Shall not be infringed.

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The full text of the Second Amendment is:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

So, about that well-regulated militia? What do you think about that?

Also, read the Federalist Papers and consider the historical context of the Second Amendment, and you'll find that the framers were concerned not only about the last clause of the Second Amendment, but also understood that the right should be regulated within the context of the states having their own defenses readily available, considering that they'd just fought an entire war for their independence from England.

They wanted to ensure that the states that comprised the colonies were both secure and free (to preserve the rights already conferred in the First Amendment - speech, press, religion, assembly, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances - all rights that were not conferred on citizens in England), and to do this, militias had to be formed within the states to ensure their security. Those militias were literally your Joe Blow colonists who lived in the states. It's kind of the precursor for each state having its own national guard.

So, for Joe Blow to provide security for the free colonies that were members of the United States, militias had to be formed and regulated, and to ensure that those militias were properly armed, the last clause was included.

So, the Second Amendment wasn't written because the big, bad government wants to come and confiscate your guns. It was literally written with the goal of securing states and securing for the citizens within those states those rights included within the Constitution.

Also, if you can't purchase a nuke or ICBM's and launch them from your personal property, then you can't keep every "arm" you think the Second Amendment says you should be able to "keep" or "bear." So, infringements on your Second Amendment right already exist.

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

This is college football, subjected to free enterprise.

It's hilarious how the number of people on this site who say they love free markets don't really love free markets when market forces dictate who locks down which recruits, who has the biggest bag to bag the best players and coaches, and value placed on goods (players) that are transferred and who has the money to buy them.

You don't love free enterprise. Stop telling that lie.