Two more gun bills head to Colorado House

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His point was that the law WASN'T absolutist; in point of fact, YOU are the one trying to make a black-and-white determination of what is Constitutional. Not adhering to the absolutist philosophy is why the SCOTUS has held that you do NOT have the freedom of speech to the point of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

You need to bone up on the Google-fu (or Yahoo-fu or whatever the heck you use). Jackson went to law school (for a year), he just didn't graduate. Lots of country lawyers in our nation's history, he just happens to be the last one ever appointed to the Supreme Court. He also served effectively as the chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg and the US Attorney General prior to WWII. I'll take a non-graduate like Jackson over graduates like Eric Holder, Hillary Rodham, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, David Souter, Michelle Robinson, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, or Lawrence Tribe any day of the week.

Are you saying you think it's fine our inalienable rights are conditional? Justice Jackson effectively said in the above quote, "Rights are subject to common sense restrictions." You're right, I do not agree and that is absolutist of me. You may have noticed (since you pasted it) that quote was an opinion with which the majority of SC Justices did not agree. Which other dissenting opinions offered by Democratic Justices do you think are sage advice?

It is not illegal to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater; it is illegal to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.