# Colorado Recall Elections **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 11, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555 "2013-09-11T05:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 192
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555/192 "2013-09-15T15:56:42Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Now it is legitimate to ask whether a freedom can be taken to a _reductio ad absurdam_ length (publishing classified documents in wartime, private ownership of nuclear weapons, etc.). But no one would argue that because the Bill of Rights doesn’t confer a boundless libertarian immunity from government authority, that it’s provisions can be violated whenever the government decides it would be convenient. Pro-gun people simply expect 2nd Amendment cases to fall under strict scrutiny, whereas the gun control crowd doesn’t seem to even recognize that a fundamental right is involved at all. All true. However, it is also true, as I posted in [this GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701371): > [@Save the guns law: What's the point?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-the-guns-law-whats-the-point/668016/151): > > Where the change in question violates the Constitution, the only legitimate path to such change is to amend the Constitution. To seek such change by any other means is illegitimate. > [@Save the guns law: What's the point?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-the-guns-law-whats-the-point/668016/153): > > It is **perfectly** legitimate to argue for a narrow reading of the 2nd Amendment in the courts; and whether any legislation violates it is a thing unknown until the courts rule. > > “Some is balls, and some is strikes, but until I calls ‘em, they ain’t nuttin’!” > > – Anonymous baseball umpire > > And regardless of whether such legislation is upheld or struck down in the courts, it is perfectly preposterous to suggest, as you have, that the legislators who initiated it should be imprisoned or impeached or debarred from office. :dubious: --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-recall-elections/668555)._