Re: Brady State report cards are out

2004-01-11 Thread Lowell C. Savage
Note that the Children and teenagers figure is a 0-19 age-group. If you use a 0-17 age group, the total drops by slightly more than 1/2 (From 2937 total (including DC's 32) to 1433 total (including DC's 11)). Note that DC doesn't get a report card. To see the data apparently used by the

Re: Takings

2005-08-05 Thread Lowell C. Savage
What grounds does a religious organization have for using the courts to compel the government to prohibit certain activity? The MN case, in particular seems entirely outlandish. If a church thinks that guns should not be carried on it's property, then it should be working to convince any

Re: Interesting state constitutional right to bear arms discussio

2005-08-29 Thread Lowell C. Savage
A few (I hope, relevant) background points. 1) Sanders (author of the CO1 opinion) is rather well known as a libertarian. Interestingly, if I recall correctly, the last time he was up for re-election, he was actually endorsed by all of the three largest parties (Democrat, Republican, and

Re: guns at workplace

2006-01-15 Thread Lowell C. Savage
It seems to me that this is one of those cases where two rights are in conflict. On the one hand, there are private property and contract rights and on the other hand, self-defense rights. Both important, both emotional, both deeply felt by some people. There are all kinds of issues in