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You do see that centralized laws are necessary though, and the bigger and more complex the country is, the bigger and more complex those laws have to be. Otherwise, only the rich will control everything. We haven't even discussed the problems with corporations and how they aren't really concerned with the "GOOD NEIGHBOR" vibe that you seem to think your country will exude.
The New America I envision will employ a free market capitalism that allows all who choose to do so to prosper legally, ethically, and within their moral convictions. Under a regulated capitalism that keeps everybody as honest and ethical as possible, there is advantage to all for everybody to prosper. There will be a role for the federal government to regulate what the states and local communicates cannot realistically regulate, but that will be a teensy role compared to what the government is now.
Wow!
Did I read that correctly?
You are advocating for a well regulated capitalist economy?
Please expound on more of these advantages for the BCSA. I want to hear how you see this happening in real life. How will you constrain corruption and pollution?
Corruption and pollution will be local and state issues except in cases in which they cross state lines in a way that the states themselves cannot realistically regulate. For instance, the Rio Grande water is shared by Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas thus regulation of the Rio Grande, its general health, and how much water each state is entitled to realistically has to be managed by the central government. But aquifers and lakes wholly contained within a given state would not be within federal jurisdiction to regulate or control.
Also it must be left up to the states to determine whether a felon is to be allowed possession of firearms.
So if NM decides that convicted felons can have guns in their jail cells and one of them is to be extradicted to CO that doesn't allow convicted felons serving time to have guns who takes the gun away from the felon?
Wouldn't it be a violation of NM property rights to take it away before sending them to CO?
How will CO feel about having to take control over a fully armed felon from the NM authorities?
How many people do you imagine will uphold the right of a convicted felon to have a gun in his possession at all times?
What will happen when a convicted felon sues CO and claims that he has a right to bear arms?
Damn you're making things complicated. It would be so much easier to just say " Guns Good....Regulation Bad " . That wouldn't deal with all the problems that the country would inevitably have, but it would be easier for the silly people who might think this idea makes any sense at all.
I am pretty sure though that any who choose to join us in New America will want some assurance that the government will not infringe on their right to keep and bear arms. We probably won't put in the militia clause to justify it unless a good argument can be made as to why it needs to be there.
I could see the Second Amendment in the new Bill of Rights being phrased something like:
Congress shall make no law infringing on the people's right to own, keep, and bear arms for purposes of self defense of person, property, or community, or for any peaceful purpose.
This would not prevent any local community or state to impose regulations re open or concealed carry laws, restrictions of firearms in bars, courthouses, etc. as they do now.