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Originally Posted by greymule
make no allowance for exceptions
Government uses a club, not a scalpel. Jeffrey Dahmer? Sex offender. Twelve-year-old who grabs a girl's rear end? Sex offender.
Guy caught with a trunk full of smuggled fully automatic weapons? Firearms violator. Guy has a trigger guard a quarter inch too narrow on the shotgun grandpa gave him 20 years ago? Firearms violator.
Incidentally, if that 12-year-old kid has to register as a sex offender, then so should more than half the male population of the United States, including a significant portion of the Congress and more than one former President.
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... and the entire male population of Italy
Incidentally, (to mcrowder and others who take the position that signing the form is harmless since it is not actually required to gain access to the same information) there is a big difference (as a matter of principle) between me giving someone permission to discover personal information and them doing it anyway. There is a big difference (as a matter of principle) between something being legal and something being right. There is a big difference (as a matter of principle) between something being declared constitutional by a specific set of 9 members of the black-robed priesthood and something being actually allowed under a plain reading of the constitution. Defending our liberty is not a one-time event but a continuing battle.
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"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this
ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States or to the people." [10th Amendment]
To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn
around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless
field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition."
"Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of
government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by
slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
"In a free country, every power is dangerous which is not bound
up by general rules."
"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body,
like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming
advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is
engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of
that which feeds them."
"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."
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--Thomas Jefferson
Obviously we are well beyond the single step Mr. Jefferson feared.