Comments on: Lawyers and Guns and Pearland Schools http://kevinmurphylaw.com/blog/2010/02/28/lawyers-and-guns-and-pearland-schools/ Murphy's Law: When it happens, call us. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:18:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom Glass http://kevinmurphylaw.com/blog/2010/02/28/lawyers-and-guns-and-pearland-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4980 Tom Glass Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:18:55 +0000 http://kevinmurphylaw.com/blog/?p=64#comment-4980 The federal law you cite is unconstitutional in two ways. First, Article I, Section 8's commerce clause cannot be stretched this far. A law like this has already been struck down under U.S. v Lopez, and this law is not significantly different than that struck down. Firearms possession has nothing to do with regulation of commerce among the states. Second, this federal law is a violation of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The state statute is still a violation of the Second Amendment and the Texas constitutional provision protecting the right to bear arms. (This assumes that the Supreme Court will soon properly recognize that the Second Amendment applies to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.) Practically, schools are defenseless victim zones now. Crazies and terrorists know they can go to a school and get no significant resistance. After terrorist attacks against their schools, Isrealis put a practical stop to it by allowing adults at schools to be armed. For the life of me, I do not know why we leave our children and faculty and staff at schools as sitting ducks for whatever crazies or terrorists may choose to attack them. The federal law you cite is unconstitutional in two ways. First, Article I, Section 8’s commerce clause cannot be stretched this far. A law like this has already been struck down under U.S. v Lopez, and this law is not significantly different than that struck down. Firearms possession has nothing to do with regulation of commerce among the states.

Second, this federal law is a violation of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

The state statute is still a violation of the Second Amendment and the Texas constitutional provision protecting the right to bear arms. (This assumes that the Supreme Court will soon properly recognize that the Second Amendment applies to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.)

Practically, schools are defenseless victim zones now. Crazies and terrorists know they can go to a school and get no significant resistance.

After terrorist attacks against their schools, Isrealis put a practical stop to it by allowing adults at schools to be armed.

For the life of me, I do not know why we leave our children and faculty and staff at schools as sitting ducks for whatever crazies or terrorists may choose to attack them.

]]> By: PISD mom http://kevinmurphylaw.com/blog/2010/02/28/lawyers-and-guns-and-pearland-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4979 PISD mom Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:31:38 +0000 http://kevinmurphylaw.com/blog/?p=64#comment-4979 Was it loaded? Was it loaded?

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