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The Second Amendment Is Not About Squirrels
Former councilman has a fractured view of the Bill of Rights.
I don’t consider former Chesterfield Ward 1 Councilman Gene Schenberg much of a Constitutional scholar. Schenberg is trying to sell his position that the Second Amendment of the Constitution gives him the right to shoot projectiles from a gun at squirrels to protect his house in the Greenfield Village subdivision. Schenberg specifically seems to think opening a window and taking a shot at a squirrel with a .177 caliber pellet gun or a .22 caliber rifle is every American’s right. A number of his neighbors think otherwise. Unbelievably, Chesterfield founding father and current Ward 1 Councilman Barry Flachsbart is buying into this nonsense. He's against a proposal to make it illegal to fire a pellet gun within 150 yards of a house. The bill …
Sensible? I think so
5:21 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Great article. The issue is about safety, not my right to defend myself. There are MANY things I can't legally do because they could be unsafe. There are MANY laws that restrict what I can do on my property based on what "might" happen. That's the cost of living in a civilized society that respects the rights of all individuals. The houses are too close together in Chesterfield to allow discharge… more ›