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Re: The Bourbon and Whiskey Thread
Good news: Scored some Blanton's yesterday.
Bad news: I pulled the cork without breaking the fancy "wax" seal.
How can I trust them if EVERY other bourbon's seal is better seal than theirs?
Re: Political Discussions
@VegasFrank said:
@TRayB said:
@VegasFrank said:
Break break....Wondering that since we should create a national disease registry and a national voter ID, then maybe we should create a national gun owner ID and a national firearm registry?
The difference in those first two things and the last two is the distinction between political rights and natural rights.
(I don't know about a call for a national disease registry. What does it entail?)
Don't know how natural it is to have a man made gun, but if you're talking about inherent rights or constitutional rights, then I'd say that voting is an inherent right since the Constitution spells out elections...so no id?
And if we're talking about ensuring only actual Americans have the right, as in voting, then I say we use the same method... Registering and showing papers to ensure the right.
As for the registry, Google it. They want to put all diseased people's records in a national database to perform a study...nothing like what 1930s Germany did.
A natural right is a right that is inherent based on being a human, which includes the right to defend oneself and one's property by the best means available, which these days includes more than rocks and sticks, regardless of citizenship in any country. It is different, and superior to, a Constitutional right, which is a right granted by the Constitution of the government under which one lives.
Voting is not an inherent, or natural right. The right to select the kind of government one lives under is, though. The U.S. Constitution grants the right to vote to it's citizens, guaranteed in Article 4, Section 4, and further amended in Amendments 15, 19, and 26.
If the U.S. Constitution limits voting to citizens (which it does), there should be a method to determine those who vote are actually citizens.
Further, the 9th Amendment states that rights enumerated in the Constitution do not remove or deny other rights retained by the people, i.e. those natural rights belonging to all humans. All humans everywhere have a natural right to defend themselves with the best instruments available for the purpose, although not all governments allow that right to be exercised. Not ironically, many of those governments instituted registries of firearms prior to removing the right, after removing the firearms that appeared in the registry.
As to the disease registry, without reading what is actually proposed, it does not seem like something I would agree with, because my Jesus is not orange. Are you seriously expecting though that within a few years after instituting such a registry, we will be performing human medical experiments on live Black and brown people, like **** Germany did? That would actually confirm that such registries, firearms registry included, are inherently extremely dangerous.
TRayB
Re: merry memes
I know I'm becoming too critical,
Why did he need the slightly racist uncle to help him choose something from the menu? There's no logical prompt to get the uncle to say something unhelpful.
