Of Arms and the Law

Navigation
About Me
Contact Me
Archives
XML Feed
Home


Law Review Articles
Firearm Owner's Protection Act
Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies
2nd Amendment & Historiography
The Lecture Notes of St. George Tucker
Original Popular Understanding of the 14th Amendment
Originalism and its Tools


2nd Amendment Discussions

1982 Senate Judiciary Comm. Report
2004 Dept of Justice Report
US v. Emerson (5th Cir. 2001)

Click here to join the NRA (or renew your membership) online! Special discount: annual membership $25 (reg. $35) for a great magazine and benefits.

Recommended Websites
Ammo.com, deals on ammunition
Scopesfield: rifle scope guide
Ohioans for Concealed Carry
Clean Up ATF (heartburn for headquarters)
Concealed Carry Today
Knives Infinity, blades of all types
Buckeye Firearms Association
NFA Owners' Association
Leatherman Multi-tools And Knives
The Nuge Board
Dave Kopel
Steve Halbrook
Gunblog community
Dave Hardy
Bardwell's NFA Page
2nd Amendment Documentary
Clayton Cramer
Constitutional Classics
Law Reviews
NRA news online
Sporting Outdoors blog
Blogroll
Instapundit
Upland Feathers
Instapunk
Volokh Conspiracy
Alphecca
Gun Rights
Gun Trust Lawyer NFA blog
The Big Bore Chronicles
Good for the Country
Knife Rights.org
Geeks with Guns
Hugh Hewitt
How Appealing
Moorewatch
Moorelies
The Price of Liberty
Search
Email Subscription
Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

 

Credits
Powered by Movable Type 6.8.8
Site Design by Sekimori

« Time for some laughs | Main | Back from hospital »

out of action

Posted by David Hardy · 22 March 2009 06:01 PM

hospitalized, prob until tuesday. long story, will fill in later.

49 Comments | Leave a comment

TC | March 22, 2009 6:09 PM | Reply

Hope it is not serious. Best wishes.

Jason | March 22, 2009 6:11 PM | Reply

Get well soon!

Letalis Maximus, Esq. | March 22, 2009 6:18 PM | Reply

I hope it doesn't involve gerbils.

DirtCrashr | March 22, 2009 6:24 PM | Reply

Get well and fully! Best rgrds.

Blake Sobiloff | March 22, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply

Yikes! Best wishes for a quick and complete recovery.

CDR D | March 22, 2009 7:00 PM | Reply

Get well soon, counselor. We need you.

JustinGA | March 22, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply

Hope everything's alright!

periwinkle | March 22, 2009 7:03 PM | Reply

Tell the doctors that there are a few hundred armed men who'll be mighty angry if there's any medical malpractice against you. :-) Seriously, get well soon, Dave!

Chris | March 22, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply

Get well soon!

tom gunn | March 22, 2009 7:49 PM | Reply

Get well soon Dave

U R already sorely missed!

Rustmeister | March 22, 2009 8:21 PM | Reply

Hope you get well soon.

deadcenter | March 22, 2009 8:30 PM | Reply

take care of yourself, Dave.

dc

Don Gwinn | March 22, 2009 8:47 PM | Reply

If we have to get you out, I'm pretty sure we can do it. I've been watching the A-Team.

kahr40 | March 22, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply

Best Wishes. Get Well soon.

Turk Turon | March 22, 2009 9:11 PM | Reply

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

OrangeNeckInNY | March 22, 2009 9:15 PM | Reply

You laugh so hard (see previous post) that you gave yourself a hiatal hernia???

DJMoore | March 22, 2009 10:08 PM | Reply

Get out clean.

Eric | March 22, 2009 10:39 PM | Reply

Dang! Sorry to hear this, and best wishes.

Eric

straightarrow | March 23, 2009 12:45 AM | Reply

good luck

Critic | March 23, 2009 1:07 AM | Reply

Good luck. Great blog. Your previous post was one of the best.

David McCleary | March 23, 2009 3:11 AM | Reply

Dave I hope all goes well and this is not serious.

PolyKahr | March 23, 2009 5:08 AM | Reply

Dave,

Hope all is well, and I will be praying for you.

Regards,
PolyKahr

Bill Twist | March 23, 2009 5:38 AM | Reply

Tell the doctors that there are a few hundred thousand armed men who'll be mighty angry if there's any medical malpractice against you. :-)

FTFY.

Seriously, though, get well soon.

Jeff Showell | March 23, 2009 7:22 AM | Reply

I hope that you are OK and that this is nothing serious! In any case, I am addicted to your blog, so get out soon!

Jim Heath | March 23, 2009 8:21 AM | Reply

Get well soon, Dave!

Jim Heath

ed bernay | March 23, 2009 8:35 AM | Reply

Get well soon!!

Steve | March 23, 2009 8:53 AM | Reply

Get well soon; if they suggest a lobotomy tell them we don't need another anti-gunner.

Harry Schell | March 23, 2009 9:10 AM | Reply

Hope you heal fast, Dzvid.

Godspeed and good luck!

Harry

Don Hamrick | March 23, 2009 9:12 AM | Reply

Here's something for you to read in bed:

Standing up for our Constitutional Principles

by Paul Gottfried

Tenth Amendment Center

Sunday, March 22, 2009

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/03/22/standing-up-for-our-constitutional-principles/

Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and a Guggenheim recipient. He is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a contributor to Taki’s Magazine, LewRockwell.com and many other websites. He is the author of eight books, with his most recent being Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).

Author’s Note: The following text was delivered at a rally in defense of the Tenth Amendment, held at the statehouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on March 16, 2009 and organized by Representative Samuel Rohrer. The rally was well attended and the hundreds of people who crowded the rotunda, and who were shown on TV, carried such signs as “Give Us Back States Rights!” and “Guns and Property.”

Never has this author seen such an exuberant outpouring of what has been described as the “Alternative Right.” These were the members of the true conservative movement, who would never be invited on to FOX news or asked to write for National Review or the New York Times. In short, they are the real Right, which the media have worked energetically to keep out of view. May their number increase!

It might seem to some that our gathering today looks like an exercise in futility. Why should we bother to pay honor to an amendment that our courts, legislatures, and public administrators usually ignore or treat as mere decorative language?

And why bother to remind the states, which now beg for federal grants and which run to conform to federal mandates, that the states under our founding document share with the federal branches a real right to govern? Certainly most of our states, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania included, have no desire to take back those “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited to the States,” because, put most plainly, our states have become cringingly subservient to Washington.

I for one would be delighted if there were a level of government which would be willing to stand in the way of the expansion of federal power. That of course assumes that our states and their people still believed in our original constitutional principles.

As it turns out, however, the Founders did not indicate any level of government except for the states, as a partner in their plan for shared sovereignty. Whether we like it or not, it is the states, as indicated in the Tenth Amendment and in the original articles of the Constitution, with which the federal executive and federal legislative are meant to co-govern.

Therefore, those who of us shudder with horror at today’s centralized public administration need the states as the only constitutionally authorized bulwark against the consolidation of federal control. Even if most voters don’t care about this centralization, those of us who do have a duty to call attention to those limits placed on federal power under our Constitution.

Needless to say, if those limits were fully abolished, most of my fellow-academics would be rejoicing in the streets, providing that those like themselves were running the show. A constitution that allows progressive intellectuals to socialize the rest of us from a single center of power is one that they would surely welcome.

But this development would occur against everything the founders believed would result from their project in self-government. They assumed that the influence of the state governments would remain stronger than that of the central regime.

Since the existence of the national government originally depended on state legislatures, to elect presidents and senators, and since “the powers of the national government are few and defined,” as explained in Federalist 45, the Constitution’s authors believed that Americans would look first to the states in order to protect the “lives, liberty, and property of the people.”

Clearly these constitutional architects did not foresee a time when states would become the mere creatures of federal power. Nor did they imagine that it would someday be necessary to push state governments into requesting the return of their original right to self-government. Least of all, could they have dreamt that American citizens would be gathering at some future time to insist that the states act like independent agents in relation to a federal bureaucracy that has no constitutional standing whatever.

It is doubtful that our being here today will get things back to where they should be. But it can serve as a reminder that we’ve noticed how badly our constitution has strayed. This has occurred with the tacit approval of a shamefully passive or indifferent public. It has further involved a political class that, with some exceptions, such as those who invited me here to speak, is all too eager to take charge of our lives and liberty. It is also the class that continues to help themselves to our property, the very institution that, according to the founders, American citizens would look to the states to protect.

steve | March 23, 2009 9:20 AM | Reply

You're in my thoughts. Get well soon!

Hope this was nothing serious. You didn't mess with one of those brown scorpions, did you?

David E. Young | March 23, 2009 10:38 AM | Reply

Get well soon David. The very best of good luck to you.

fwb | March 23, 2009 12:03 PM | Reply

God Bless, David.

I will keep you in my prayers.

Dominus providebit!

Brandon | March 23, 2009 12:28 PM | Reply

Get well soon!

Bill Wiese | March 23, 2009 3:05 PM | Reply

Get well soon!

Bill Wiese (safely speaking for the Board)
The Calguns Foundation

Bob S. | March 23, 2009 3:21 PM | Reply

Thoughts and prayers to you and a speedy recovery.

Gila Hayes | March 23, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply

I appreciate what you do and hope you have a speedy recovery.

Jim | March 23, 2009 4:04 PM | Reply

Best wishes for a quick and painless recovery!

Russ | March 23, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply

Get well soon.

Cam | March 23, 2009 5:55 PM | Reply

Thoughts and prayers are headed your way Dave.

Chuck | March 23, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply

God's speed to a full recovery. Feel better fast.

Tarn Helm | March 23, 2009 8:10 PM | Reply

Mr. Hardy,

I am aware of your condition (if it involves what we discussed previously).

I know you are a man of fortitude and that you are highly motivated to make it through this.

If it is true that, as my mother still says, "Pain builds character," you will be even more of a character when this resolves itself.

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Persevere, sir.

We are all wishing the best for you.

And we all still need frontline research warriors like you to continue the good fight on our behalf.

Be strong; be well.

Best regards.

Chris | March 24, 2009 10:02 AM | Reply

Get well soon!!

George Mocsary | March 24, 2009 10:11 AM | Reply

All the best to you!

Robin | March 24, 2009 11:06 AM | Reply

Hope you get well soon!

KCSteve | March 24, 2009 12:16 PM | Reply

Based on the post a couple up from mine it sounds like this was a voluntary thing.

Hope everything went well and we'll be seeing an update from you later today.

Voluntary or not, remember: Doctors are much more dangerous than guns so take care!

Alan A. | March 24, 2009 12:49 PM | Reply

Get well soon and best wishes!

Kristopher | March 24, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply

Is he dead? Dibs on his tricorder and red shirt ... you can grab his boots and phaser.

periwinkle | March 24, 2009 4:28 PM | Reply

No. He's not dead! He came through the hospital event in good order. He has written a few friends privately, and likely will make a public post soon.

The Mechanic | March 24, 2009 4:36 PM | Reply

I'm praying for your speedy recovery. I think I'll change my handle from The Mechanic to The Extremist. I'll send Dr. Ron paul over.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/23/fusion-centers-expand-criteria-identify-militia-members/

Leave a comment