<<You just agreed with me, you're restricting the rights
of law abiding citizens. There are punishments for
violating the law here already, lots and lots. >>
But if it's against the law in the Netherlands to own a gun illegally, and you break
the law, you aren't law-abiding anymore.
I don't say how you can argue that one law, say, prohibiting murder, doesn't curtail
your rights while another one, say, Dutch gun control law, does.
Unless you say there's no right to murder but the Second Amendment does give you a
right to own whatever guns you like, in which case a) I disagree and so does the
Supreme Court, several times, and b) Do you know if the Dutch constitution includes
such a right? If Jeroen doesn't have a right to own a gun in his country, laws
restricting gun ownership aren't infringing on _his_ rights.
Patrick Sweeney
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