By SamAdams1776
USA -(AmmoLand.com)- There is no right to keep and bear arms in Florida and I say this as a Florida resident. Recently the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments for open carry.
A number of justices were apparently skeptical of this argument, including Justices Barbara Parient and Peggy Quince, and according to one article in the sun-sentinel, Chief Justice Jorge Labarga cannot see how licensing the exercise of the Second Amendment would be the same as licensing the First, simply because firearms can kill. Far more damage can be done using exercising the First. And it has and continues to.
How can you call something a right when you need permission from government? What we have in Florida and most other places is a right being treated as a privilege. This is hardly in keeping with the restriction placed upon government with, “…shall not be infringed.”
Weeks, prior to the hearing, I sent each of Florida’s 7 Justices a letter quite similar to the letter I had sent to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (though tailored to the issue of open carry) which was also published here: www.ammoland.com/2016/04/samadams1776/.
I received this letter (pictured below) from the Clerk of the Court after one of the Justices: Barbara Parient, forwarded my letter to the Clerk.
As you can see, I received a verbal spanking from the Clerk of the Court. Apparently they consider it inappropriate to send any form of correspondence to any Justice.
Why not? Clearly too many justices have no actual understanding of the Constitution, and so it seemed to me that some justices could use some continuing education—or perhaps even some justices do possess an understanding of sorts—but that many simply choose (in violation of their oaths) to disregard our Constitution anyway, thinking that we don’t understand what it says and means.
These justices need to know before they throw this nation headlong into a civil war over our rights, that we very much understand the Constitution and they better start taking their responsibilities in upholding it more seriously.
I will exercise my First Amendment rights as rigorously as I pursue my Second Amendment rights. We all must exercise these rights or they perish.
SamAdams1776 III
Molon Labe
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges
Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset