-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102805b0c4e8e2decb@[207.167.93.63]>, on 12/22/97 at 11:07 PM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
At 9:13 PM -0700 12/22/97, Paul Spirito wrote:
It's true that in the absence of public libraries this would not be an issue; however, it is an example of the state acting as sovereign, not employer. We're concerned with the right of patrons to access material, & they are not state employees. The situation is analogous to a public park: just because the state owns it, does that mean it can forbid, say, criticism of the state in it? No, of course not, though it has broader discretion in limiting the speech of public employees in the park, while on-duty.
Well, to move this away from First Amendment issues, for the sake of novelty, I know of several nearby state-owned parks (literally) which forbid discharge of firearms or even carrying of firearms.
Whither the Second Amendment? (Or has it withered?)
Well I realy can't see having a bunch of yahoo's shooting off guns in a crowded park to be a good thing. :) I guess it depends on what one means by a "park". If we are talking a few acre's of trees and grass in a city then one really shouldn't be using firearms unless in self defence. If we are talking "parks" in the sq. mile size that is a different matter. As far as carrying firearms IMNSHO there should be no restrictions as they are blatently in violation of the 2nd Admendment. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNJ9b/I9Co1n+aLhhAQIjQgP/UjNuKKntHmHmvHdW/R10TgS4r0nvCXnp tw7dFRNQWSrpJlRIKibfmDyLA2WZ5x89abQfk3Oinf+m/7HKwh/hyRSLq65YMZFC qXa5fKKPc35aIfw0UTrW1p4Rtmn8uhmDqffkmuMCSyw+MVGa5zKXGkTaCTvT4EBp omilOyT7Taw= =r6uF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----