{"id":1017,"date":"2014-05-07T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-05-07T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:37:49","slug":"charlotte-lane-and-the-right-to-bear-bazookas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Lane and the Right to Bear Bazookas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional candidate Charlotte Lane is running in a crowded Republican field in West Virginia\u2019s Second Congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>Lane is a former commissioner of the International Trade Commission and of the West Virginia Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4u93-c6QJog\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The West Virginia Coal Association has endorsed her.<\/p>\n<p>Lane is being challenged from the right by a number of candidates &#8212; including out of stater Alex Mooney and Berkeley Springs native Ken Reed.<\/p>\n<p>On Hoppy Kercheval\u2019s Talkline radio show on Monday, Lane was asked \u201cWhat does the Second Amendment mean to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Second Amendment means that we have a right to bear arms,\u201d Lane said. \u201cI am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. I am a member of the NRA (National Rifle Association). And I will not do anything that will diminish the Second Amendment protections that we have under the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kercheval asked whether there were any \u201climitations on an individuals ability to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lane said \u201cnot that I\u2019m aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kercheval then asked &#8212; \u201cso I could have a bazooka?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Lane answered matter of factly.<\/p>\n<p>After the interview ended, Kercheval told his audience that the bazooka question was not a \u201ctrick question\u201d or an \u201cunfair question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every candidate in West Virginia is going to be for the right to keep and bear arms, which is what I think,\u201d Kercheval said. \u201cHowever, the courts have said over and over again that there are limitations to rights. And some of you just drive off the road when I say that. But it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are limitations to free speech,\u201d Kercheval said. \u201cYou can\u2019t yell fire in a crowded theater or slander someone. Same way with the Second Amendment. Don\u2019t take my word for it. Listen to Justice Antonin Scalia. This from an interview he did about a year or two ago. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that the Constitution\u2019s right to bear arms isn\u2019t absolute and could be changed in the future. Scalia, a card carrying conservative and stalwart of the Court\u2019s right leaning majority, told Fox News Sunday that the Second Amendment\u2019s language, allowing citizens to own weapons, doesn\u2019t mean they can own any weapon they want. \u2018There are some limitations that can be imposed,\u2019 Scalia said. \u2018Obviously, the Second Amendment does not apply to weapons that cannot be hand carried. It\u2019s to keep and bear, so it doesn\u2019t apply to cannons.  But I suppose there are hand held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, so that will have to be decided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kercheval called the right \u201ca right with limitations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are those limitations?\u201d Kercheval asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may believe that a bazooka is within the realm of the right to keep and bear, because you could bear it, you could hold it. I\u2019m really not trying to trick. I\u2019m trying to establish what you believe the Second  Amendment means.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional candidate Charlotte Lane is running in a crowded Republican field in West Virginia\u2019s Second Congressional district. Lane is a former commissioner of the International Trade Commission and of the West Virginia Public Service Commission. 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