I was the guest host of Aging Options this past weekend on 770 KTTH in Seattle. Listen in if you get a chance.
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A Chief Justice in Everyday Clothing
Here is an article from March 2001 about Justice Gerry Alexander.
Gift of a Day
You can take the money. You can have the property and all of the “stuff” in my house. Just give me one more day with my wife, my children, a close friend. Let me have a day to spend with them, to look into their eyes, to memorize their face, to hear their voice.
Let me realize that day is today.
When I hear about the loss of the firefighters in Arizona, the loss of a daughter in a drive-by shooting, or the many losses that occur each day, I wonder if the loved ones would trade all of their material things away for just one more day with that special person. I believe I know the answer to that question. What would we say to the people in our lives, those people who make our lives worthwhile, if we knew today was it?
Keeping life in perspective is very difficult at times. We get caught up in problems and the things that annoy us. We forget how precious a little thing like one day might be.
Take the gift of a day and spend it wisely – today.
Gun Rights in Washington State
With so much discussion about the right to bear arms, let’s compare the right granted under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution with the Washington State Constitution:
Second Amendment to the US Constitution:
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Washington State Constitution, Article I, Section 24:
“The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.”
It would appear to me that Article I, section 24 of the Washington Constitution plainly and clearly guarantees an individual right to bear arms in Washington State. The US Constitution sets the floor and States may not go below the floor. They may, as Washington has, move up to the mezzanine.
Bill of Rights
If you visit the National Archives in our nation’s capital, you can
view the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The writing is
faded making it difficult, if not impossible, to read in the dim lit
Rotunda.
The Constitution is the frame, our skeletal structure. The Bill of
Rights gives us our sight, our ability to feel, to reach out and
touch; it’s our hearing and our heart. Without the Bill of Rights we
are but raw intelligence, drifting at sea without a sail.
Listen now, to the words of our beloved Ten Amendments, our Bill of Rights.
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