Yesterday Rick reported on a gun rights ruling in Florida that overturned a Florida State University ban on students storing firearms in their vehicles.
Judge Clay Roberts wrote, “Restricting recreational activities is a far cry from restricting a fundamental, constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self-defense…”
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Judge Scott Makar wrote “… If universities can regulate away a Second Amendment right, why not a First Amendment one? Or one protected by the Fourth or Fifth Amendment? The point is rhetorical, but nonetheless meaningful because campus authority unchecked can go astray of constitutional norms.”
This is great stuff. When first I read the words I thought…Yeah! great point. And then I remembered that Campus “authorities” took a hard left and went “astray of constitutional norms” decades ago.
So let us give irony it’s due. Judge Markar’s remarks about gun rights are “hate speech” on the average University campus where the same progressive guardians who wield a hyperbolic hair-trigger on the guns of high-dudgeon regarding acts of “censorship” are the first to silence any speech (assembly, association, religious expression) that does not fit into their very narrow world-view.
