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Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:05 am
by philip964
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... /75414186/
"Cottrol noted that crimes like carrying or owning a pistol without a license are what the law has traditionally termed malum prohibitum — that is, things that are wrong only because they are prohibited. (The contrast is with the other traditional category, malum in se, those things, like rape, robbery, and murder, that are wrong in themselves.)"
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:23 am
by oljames3
Meanwhile, on the gun front, I think we need federal civil rights legislation to protect citizens who make innocent mistakes. Federal law already defines who is allowed to possess firearms. Under Congress’s civil rights powers (gun ownership and carrying, after all, are protected under the Second Amendment), I think we need federal legislation limiting the maximum penalty a state can assess for possessing or carrying a firearm on the part of someone allowed to own a gun under federal law to a $500 fine. That would let states regulate reasonably, without permitting this sort of injustice.
Interesting article. National reciprocity would be a good start.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:25 am
by howdy
Good article....reasonable solutions.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:29 am
by TreyHouston
As the REAL Dimocrat party come out, expect more and more start to put distance between.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am
by Charles L. Cotton
Bob Cottrol who was cited in the article is on the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Board of Trustees, as am I. Bob is a Democrat, rather liberal I suspect, but a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and strict construction of the Constitution. He's brilliant and a great guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cottrol
Chas.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 1:02 pm
by puma guy
Charles L. Cotton wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am
Bob Cottrol who was cited in the article is on the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Board of Trustees, as am I. Bob is a Democrat, rather liberal I suspect, but a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and strict construction of the Constitution. He's brilliant and a great guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cottrol
Chas.
Democrat 2nd Amendment supporter and constructionist makes him a living oxymoron. Glad to know they exist!
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 1:09 pm
by flechero
Charles L. Cotton wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am
Bob Cottrol who was cited in the article is on the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Board of Trustees, as am I.
Bob is a Democrat, rather liberal I suspect, but a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and strict construction of the Constitution. He's brilliant and a great guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cottrol
Chas.
I'd love to sit down with him and chat... I'm not sure I understand how you can completely reconcile both ends of the spectrum in a single mind, but it would make for an interesting conversation!
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:28 pm
by Pawpaw
That very good article is from Nov. 9, 2015. I doubt a similar article would make it past the editors today.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:18 pm
by Liberty
Pawpaw wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:28 pm
That very good article is from Nov. 9, 2015. I doubt a similar article would make it past the editors today.
Glenn Reynolds is a regular columnist on USA today, He is a libertarian, Law Professor, Blogger and writes pretty much what he wants too. I doubt that USA exersises much editorial control over him. Although he now has several like minded co-bloggers. His postings can be found at
The Instapundit
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:47 pm
by jason812
This article makes a point to the state of our government and the path we are heading down. You will be punished greater for a crime against the government (prohibited possession of items) than you will for crimes against your fellow man (murder, rape, assault...). I'm pretty sure this is not what the Founders had in mind when they wrote the Constitution.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:52 pm
by Maxwell
Good read.
Re: Great USA Today gun opinion article. Not joking.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:18 pm
by flowrie
This article was in the USAToday? Wow!
Never would have expected it.