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FL Supreme Kourt: No open carry for you!

JamesCanby

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I THINK THAT countryclubjoe IS SAYING, THAT THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO TAX A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ANYONE, THEREFOR A LAW ABIDING PERSON, CANNOT BE MADE TO PAY FOR A LICENSE, FOR THEIR RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR 2ND AMENDMENT RITE. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

No, what Country Club Liberal Joe wrote was "I have been advocating to have the 1947 New Jersey Constitution revised and remove any reference to a Tax" and did not attempt to limit it to a tax that implied paying for a license or for a right to exercise their 2nd Amendment rite (sic).
 

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I THINK THAT countryclubjoe IS SAYING, THAT THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO TAX A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ANYONE, THEREFOR A LAW ABIDING PERSON, CANNOT BE MADE TO PAY FOR A LICENSE, FOR THEIR RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR 2ND AMENDMENT RITE. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

Jammer, you are 100% correct... Some folks only see what they want to see, without thinking.. They are wearing bifocals while we have X-ray vision..
My .02

Regards
CCJ
 
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countryclubjoe

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No, what Country Club Liberal Joe wrote was "I have been advocating to have the 1947 New Jersey Constitution revised and remove any reference to a Tax" and did not attempt to limit it to a tax that implied paying for a license or for a right to exercise their 2nd Amendment rite (sic).

Simply read State of Pa v Murdock ( 1943)..
 

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" States do not have the power to license or tax-- a right guaranteed to the people".. Murdock v Pa (1943)..

I suggest you read the case, than try to form an intelligent thought thereof.. Seems fairly simple to me.

CCJ
 

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" States do not have the power to license or tax-- a right guaranteed to the people".. Murdock v Pa (1943)..

I suggest you read the case, than try to form an intelligent thought thereof.. Seems fairly simple to me.

CCJ

I suggest you sip a cup of reality and understand that all politics -- and government -- are (or should be) local, with the taxes collected by a county or state being used to provide services to their own jurisdiction. As another poster appropriately pointed out, if only the federal government can collect taxes, what entity in the Federal government will be responsible for employing the local police, firemen and EMTs? What federal entity will create the school local school systems and hire the teachers? What system will the feds use to equitably distribute the tax revenue, or will they implement the philosophy of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs?"

I suspect that you are a basically a socialist that believes in one, national, over-arching federal government that controls everyone, everywhere, perhaps even a believer in a New World Order that comprises one central, worldwide government. You might observe how well that's working out for Venezuela...
 

Fallschirjmäger

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" States do not have the power to license or tax-- a right guaranteed to the people".. Murdock v Pa (1943)..

I suggest you read the case, than[sic] try to form an intelligent thought thereof.. Seems fairly simple to me.

Joe,
Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance requiring solicitors to purchase a license was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion.
Justice William O. Douglas delivered the opinion of the Court. The court held that the ordinance was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion.

If I may, I respectfully suggest you read the case yourself (somewhat more thoroughly than you have apparently) and understand that it settled no matter that Was Not Brought Before the Court.
You can't just parse random words from a court's decision and make them fit your agenda, that's not how things work.
 

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Joe,
Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance requiring solicitors to purchase a license was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion.
Justice William O. Douglas delivered the opinion of the Court. The court held that the ordinance was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion.

If I may, I respectfully suggest you read the case yourself (somewhat more thoroughly than you have apparently) and understand that it settled no matter that Was Not Brought Before the Court.
You can't just parse random words from a court's decision and make them fit your agenda, that's not how things work.

No disrespect, but, what part of " States do not have the power to license or tax, a right guaranteed to the people"
do you not understand?.. Please refer to your dictionary, I understand the word " guaranteed" is a fairly big word. However eventually you shall comprehend its meaning.

CCJ
 

hammer6

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I suggest you sip a cup of reality and understand that all politics -- and government -- are (or should be) local, with the taxes collected by a county or state being used to provide services to their own jurisdiction. As another poster appropriately pointed out, if only the federal government can collect taxes, what entity in the Federal government will be responsible for employing the local police, firemen and EMTs? What federal entity will create the school local school systems and hire the teachers? What system will the feds use to equitably distribute the tax revenue, or will they implement the philosophy of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs?"

I suspect that you are a basically a socialist that believes in one, national, over-arching federal government that controls everyone, everywhere, perhaps even a believer in a New World Order that comprises one central, worldwide government. You might observe how well that's working out for Venezuela...

i'm sure we'd get by just fine.
 

Fallschirjmäger

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No disrespect, but, what part of " States do not have the power to license or tax, a right guaranteed to the people" do you not understand?.. Please refer to your dictionary, I understand the word " guaranteed" is a fairly big word. However eventually you shall comprehend its meaning.

I understand it quite well, CCJ, but I'm not the one taking it out of context. I'm sorry you understand 'guaranteed' to be a big word, I hope one day you become more familiar with them.
 

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Sorry, Fallschirmjäger, this is not meant as a criticism of you or your post. I have always enjoyed and respected your posts here on OCDO. This is only a question to help me understand this type of thread. What benefit and/or enjoyment do you get from any conversation with people like this? It seems pointless to me and I refuse to lower myself to make any attempt to reason with them. Obviously, you see some value in this type of discussion that I can not find. Can you point me in the direction of that value? I've never seen the sense in attempts at reason with unreasonable people, nor have I ever had any success in convincing them of anything. I no longer try.

What is unreasonable about posting a Supreme Court decision about rights?

Regards
CCJ
 
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