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military open carry

EMNofSeattle

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There is nothing wrong with entering into a socialistic arrangement voluntarily. It's called a contract.

contracts still must comply to applicable laws, and it's very different when the government is the contracting party versus a private entity.

currently federal law prohibits the department of defense from enacting or enforcing any order involving off base firearms possession....
 

marshaul

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contracts still must comply to applicable laws, and it's very different when the government is the contracting party versus a private entity.

Excellent point. I could see the justification for preventing all sorts of contractual arrangements with government that might be allowed otherwise.

Guns are a great example… I can't see limiting the right of private employers to require their employees to be unarmed. The government, however, has no rights, so it clearly can't have a right to require anything at all of its employees. With no right to appeal to, there is left only reason, and I can see no reason to allow the government to disarm its soldiers off-base.
 

eye95

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contracts still must comply to applicable laws, and it's very different when the government is the contracting party versus a private entity.

currently federal law prohibits the department of defense from enacting or enforcing any order involving off base firearms possession....

Actually, that is an example of the government promising not to do something, not really being prohibited from doing it. Tomorrow, the government could unilaterally repeal that law, immediately followed by commanders, another arm of that same government, barring carry by its members.

The only legal way to enjoin the federal government is via the Constitution (which one might argue already enjoins the government from telling soldiers that they cannot carry "off-duty"). Laws the government passes prohibiting itself from taking a particular action are kinda silly.


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eye95

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My, my, my - you bite off a big chunk there. Hope you have no trouble swallowing it.

I don't quite know what you mean by this, but there is a distinction between laws the government created by the Constitution passes to restrict itself, and Constitutional restrictions which are (theoretically, at least) brought into being by the People and the States which created the Constitution and, through it, the federal government. Any protection we gain by the passage of a law can be lost by the repeal of it.


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Grapeshot

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The GFSZ Act was intended to protect and if it is repealed will those that the law was intended to protect then be unprotected?
The road to hell was paved with good intentions.

We all know that the GFSZ has the opposite effect from what it is reported to do.
 

carolina guy

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I don't quite know what you mean by this, but there is a distinction between laws the government created by the Constitution passes to restrict itself, and Constitutional restrictions which are (theoretically, at least) brought into being by the People and the States which created the Constitution and, through it, the federal government. Any protection we gain by the passage of a law can be lost by the repeal of it.


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EMNofSeattle

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well since eye95 thinks the government can contract away your rights... what if you buy a plot of property and want to build a house, and the county planning board won't issue you a building permit unless you grant the city the right to search your house at any time w/o a warrant, would that be a voluntary contract and not a law or rule?
 
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