On 6/25/05 10:22 PM, "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So the government takes your gun as an exercise of the eminent
> domain. It then has to pay you just compensation, in the form of fair
> market value. You take the compensation and buy a new gun. You may be
> annoyed, but it isn't really much of an interference with your right to
> have a gun. Remember that the issue in Kelo was whether the government
> could take property *in exchange for compensation*.
Ah, so perhaps in this context Kelo means that if you have a prized $30,000
Krieghoff shotgun sitting in your gun cabinet, I can have the city force you
to sell it to me, because I promise to take it to a public range twice a
year and let anybody take a couple of shots with it for free.
:-) (Just kidding.)
--
Bob Woolley
St. Paul, MN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is
worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a
miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so
by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
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