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发帖数: 29846 | 1 January 23, 2014 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Illinois is mulling a new medical marijuana law that would force pot users
to sign away their right to bear arms.
Those who focus on the right to bear arms love to say, “what part of ‘
shall not be infringed’ don’t you understand,” as a catch phrase to show
that the founders did not want government to be able to sweep in and take
away our rights to self defense. That phrase can be asked of Illinois
legislators who are proposing that to get a medical marijuana permit
citizens would have to relinquish their right to bear arms.
The plan would require pot users to be fingerprinted for a background check,
they’d have to pay a yearly $150 permit fee, and they would be forced to
give up their Second Amendment rights to be allowed to get pot.
Interestingly, the National Rifle Association is not too keen to jump into
this one. Apparently coming to the aid of pot users is a role they aren’t
comfortable with so for now the NRA is not taking a position on the proposed
law other than to say it will be interesting to see how the courts are
going to reconcile it.
I find the NRA’s passing on this matter gutless. I am not fan of pot use–
in fact, I’ve never done the drug in my life–nor am I a fan of legalizing
it, but for the NRA not to see that this proposed law is clearly un-
constitutional is pretty sad.
The fact is, one cannot relinquish a constitutional right merely to be
allowed to do something else. The government has no right whatsoever to take
away a freedom from a citizen who has done nothing wrong.
But even on a logical note it makes no sense. Are Illinois lawmakers saying
that people who smoke pot are prone to shooting up their neighborhoods? What
basis for that conclusion exists?
None.
This provision is clearly unconstitutional. Clearly.
As to the rest of the law, it has a whole raft of other requirements such as
cops and school bus drivers would not be allowed to attain a legal pot use
license, pot would have to be in a sealed container unreachable by a driver
in a car, and pot sales could not be carried out within 250 feet of a school
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