Re: Are the Limiting and Restricting Gun Laws of Pennsylvania Unconstitutional?
The RKBA is among the few (if only) fundamental rights subject to prior restraint.
In other words, someone with a loaded rifle in their car might try to take game from their car (which is legitimately illegal except for special exceptions for the handicapped) so . . . instead of just punishing people who take game from their cars (which is admittedly hard to catch), the gov't in its infinite wisdom simply bans loaded rifles in cars. There you go. You rights are trampled on but the game warden's job just got easier, which is apparently far more important than any of your rights.
It's that type of thinking that we need to roll back. People who can't behave themselves should be punished. Not all of us, just people who can't behave themselves. The gov't should focus on prosecuting actual crime, not imposing on all of our rights in a futile effort to make crime "impossible."
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