On 8/4/05 12:07 AM, "rufx2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rather than a taking issue, it seems instead one of whether the parties'
> respective liberty interests coexist on either side of the car door. the
> invitation to the premises in conjunction with transport to the parking lot
> of employment does not thereby create a right to dictate whether or what
> kind of tire-iron or air-freshener one may legally possess inside their
> vehicle. at bottom is the perceived potential for utilizing some part of
> the contents (in this case a specifically identified content) of that
> vehicle in a manner which has an affect outside the vehicle, and concern
> over liability for that affect. this has been addressed by legislation
> immunizing premises-owners from tort liability for that affect. query
> whether the legislation covers assaults with tire-irons or fists.
This particular legislation doesn't cover anything except pistols. Knives,
e.g., are not mentioned.
But suppose that a radically pacifist religious group *did* want to go so
far as to ban possession on its premises of any object (not part of one's
person) it perceived as readily usable as a weapon--tire irons, Leatherman
tools, metal-cased fire extinguishers, bike-lock chains or cables, ropes,
etc. Should this group be allowed, as a matter of public policy (setting
aside any particular piece of legislation for the moment), to set compliance
with such rules as a condition for entering or using its building and/or
parking lot? We can even stipulate that the list the group has compiled is,
by overinclusion and/or underinclusion, quite irrational. Does that matter,
if the religious belief underlying it is genuine?
--
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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