This I know to be true and you can fact check it until you are black and blue.
1)Ruger is a N.H. company.
2) Ruger just purchased the Marlin Company, a Connecticut manufacturing company.
3) If Ruger can be enticed to move its Marlin manufacturing from Connecticut to New Hampshire, all of the Marlin workers will get an automatic 30 percent raise for they no longer pay a state income or sales tax.
4) The manufacturing facility for Marlin manufacturing is ready to be occupied for manufacturing.
5) The underused Kennett High School building is the perfect site. With declining student enrollment and contracts from the sending towns about to expire and not to be renewed, it is time to get this burden off the backs of taxpayers.
You’re certainly entitled to your opinion but your opinion is not the law.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court finally did strike down a gun control regulation, in this case, a federal law that forbade nearly all civilians from possessing a handgun in the District of Columbia. This ruling upheld that the original meaning of the Second Amendment protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
Two years later, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court struck down a similar law at the state level. The ruling upheld the same individual right that is protected from federal infringement by the Second Amendment.
The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with what type of firearm you possess. Nor does it address what you will be doing [legally] with that firearm. In fact, and more to the point, the intent of the 2nd Amendment was to give the citizens the ability to ward off a tyrannical government. Hunting was not the issue or consideration.
Self-defense is an inherent right, as a matter of jurisprudence, just as murder is against the law, even though neither are addressed in the Bill of Rights.
As for a, “bullying spirit”, I haven’t the slightest idea of what you are talking about or what that has to do with my rights as an American. Maybe you have some kind of underlying issue(s) that you need to deal with, but please don’t be projecting your own demons or inadequacies onto others.
I’m what some people might refer to as a professional when it comes to firearms and I am fairly confident in my physical and mental abilities and conditioning when it comes to their safe and proper handling.
You never did answer the question, however: Why should a doctor be against firearms?
I think this is one of the most bizarre suggestions I've encountered. When my kids attended Kennett we had to sign a pledge to adhere to the school's no weapons policy. I suppose it could be amended to no weapons--except for those manufactured on school grounds.
"3) If Ruger can be enticed to move its Marlin manufacturing from Connecticut to New Hampshire, all of the Marlin workers will get an automatic 30 percent raise for they no longer pay a state income or sales tax."
While I may not have been a math major, i'd love to now how you came up with 30% raise.
In addition, most of the people from CT would not move up here to continue their employment. They'd be laid off. Ruger would offer them jobs with a pay cut.
Those that did move up here would further bombard the housing market making an already difficult to get into house as prices keep climbing, near impossible for any locals.
Maybe your letter was tongue in cheek and I just missed the joke ?
When you say, "against" guns, that's a fairly broad category of inanimate objects. Is that all guns, or do you have one in particular that bothers you?
Are doctors exempt from the protections of the 2nd Amendment?
Are doctors exempt from the right to self-defense?
Doctors get the full protection of the 2d Amendment, which I support, and which reads in full as follows:
"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."
I have a gun (my grandfather's shotgun) and will take every opportunity to shoot skeet.
Have a hunting rifle if you want, even if you're a doctor. What I don't support is the right of individual citizens to have the kind of guns that Ruger and its competitors are pushing. That's not really hunting rifles any more, it's tactical weapontry.
My read of the 2d is that you can have "Arms" (the big stuff) if you're part of a well regulated militia (i.e., if your Arms are subject to regulation and control by civil authorities). This is the principle of the citizen soldier embodied by the Roman leader Cincinnatus, and emulated by Washington when he ceded military authority to the Continental Congress at the end of the Revolution. It's not Ted Kozinski with a gun locker bigger than his log cabin. The point is that our freedom comes not from having a gun, it comes from knowing that the Armed Forces and the Militia (in modern parlance, the National Guard) are subject to civilian authority, and that we collectively have the military power to shake off tyranny.
Interestingly, the Second Amendment does not contain a right to self defense.
No one wants to hurt you RetVet, and if you enjoy hunting or target shooting have at it. But if you're storing arms and weapons, my guess is that it's an overabundance of a bullying spirit, rather than the unlikely scenario where your castle is invaded.
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Bill,
You’re certainly entitled to your opinion but your opinion is not the law.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court finally did strike down a gun control regulation, in this case, a federal law that forbade nearly all civilians from possessing a handgun in the District of Columbia. This ruling upheld that the original meaning of the Second Amendment protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
Two years later, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court struck down a similar law at the state level. The ruling upheld the same individual right that is protected from federal infringement by the Second Amendment.
The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with what type of firearm you possess. Nor does it address what you will be doing [legally] with that firearm. In fact, and more to the point, the intent of the 2nd Amendment was to give the citizens the ability to ward off a tyrannical government. Hunting was not the issue or consideration.
Self-defense is an inherent right, as a matter of jurisprudence, just as murder is against the law, even though neither are addressed in the Bill of Rights.
As for a, “bullying spirit”, I haven’t the slightest idea of what you are talking about or what that has to do with my rights as an American. Maybe you have some kind of underlying issue(s) that you need to deal with, but please don’t be projecting your own demons or inadequacies onto others.
I’m what some people might refer to as a professional when it comes to firearms and I am fairly confident in my physical and mental abilities and conditioning when it comes to their safe and proper handling.
You never did answer the question, however: Why should a doctor be against firearms?
I think this is one of the most bizarre suggestions I've encountered. When my kids attended Kennett we had to sign a pledge to adhere to the school's no weapons policy. I suppose it could be amended to no weapons--except for those manufactured on school grounds.
"3) If Ruger can be enticed to move its Marlin manufacturing from Connecticut to New Hampshire, all of the Marlin workers will get an automatic 30 percent raise for they no longer pay a state income or sales tax."
While I may not have been a math major, i'd love to now how you came up with 30% raise.
In addition, most of the people from CT would not move up here to continue their employment. They'd be laid off. Ruger would offer them jobs with a pay cut.
Those that did move up here would further bombard the housing market making an already difficult to get into house as prices keep climbing, near impossible for any locals.
Maybe your letter was tongue in cheek and I just missed the joke ?
I think that you should lay off of the two hour prostate self exams; they're going to your head.
I think Doctors should be against guns.
Bill,
What about knives or other sharp objects?
Makes about as much sense.
When you say, "against" guns, that's a fairly broad category of inanimate objects. Is that all guns, or do you have one in particular that bothers you?
Are doctors exempt from the protections of the 2nd Amendment?
Are doctors exempt from the right to self-defense?
Doctors get the full protection of the 2d Amendment, which I support, and which reads in full as follows:
"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."
I have a gun (my grandfather's shotgun) and will take every opportunity to shoot skeet.
Have a hunting rifle if you want, even if you're a doctor. What I don't support is the right of individual citizens to have the kind of guns that Ruger and its competitors are pushing. That's not really hunting rifles any more, it's tactical weapontry.
My read of the 2d is that you can have "Arms" (the big stuff) if you're part of a well regulated militia (i.e., if your Arms are subject to regulation and control by civil authorities). This is the principle of the citizen soldier embodied by the Roman leader Cincinnatus, and emulated by Washington when he ceded military authority to the Continental Congress at the end of the Revolution. It's not Ted Kozinski with a gun locker bigger than his log cabin. The point is that our freedom comes not from having a gun, it comes from knowing that the Armed Forces and the Militia (in modern parlance, the National Guard) are subject to civilian authority, and that we collectively have the military power to shake off tyranny.
Interestingly, the Second Amendment does not contain a right to self defense.
No one wants to hurt you RetVet, and if you enjoy hunting or target shooting have at it. But if you're storing arms and weapons, my guess is that it's an overabundance of a bullying spirit, rather than the unlikely scenario where your castle is invaded.
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