People don't kill people, guns do!

Legitimacy is in the eye of the governed...

and while I repeatedly support the principles you wish to see embodied in a government, I don't see them as an exclusive approach, nor their imperfect implementation a justification for violent rebellion.

Why didn't the Founding Fathers implement Libertarianism at the State level?

They were after all, the political class and in a perfect position to do so.

I believe it was because they realized that those principles alone wouldn't work when it came down to the messy business of governing the interactions between people, not merely interactions between states.

They themselves couldn't live up to those principles, how could they expect the lesser classes to act any better?

I honestly have no idea what you mean with this question. It's not like state and federal libertarian principles are mutually exclusive.

None of the Federal Government's enumerated purposes would have presented any need to infringe on personal liberty, so implementing a non-infringing federal government wasn't so difficult.

Well, it is the case that the states are not allowed to form state constitutions or laws that violate the federal constitutional principles

I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States, not to its principles, or to John Locke's principles.

just sounds pretty hypocritical, that's all.

A Taylorsville elementary school teacher somehow shot herself in the leg while in a school restroom.

The woman, who was not immediately identified, was in a faculty restroom at Westbrook Elementary School (3451 W. 6200 South) on Thursday morning when her handgun went off, said Ben Horsley, spokesman of Granite School District.

The gunshot occurred a little before 9 a.m., before school started. No students were around at the time, Horsley said.

The bullet entered and exited her leg, and she was taken to Intermountain Medical Center, where she was listed in good condition later Thursday.

Granite School District police are still investigating how the handgun accidentally discharged.

Classes were proceeding as normal as possible, Horsley said.
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The teacher — a concealed carry permit holder — was allowed to have the weapon on campus per school district policy, as well as state law, Horsley said.

.....how the handgun accidentally discharged

You could infer the safety was off.

The first power, viz. of doing whatsoever he thought for the preservation of himself, and the rest of mankind, he gives up to be regulated by laws made by the society, so far forth as the preservation of himself, and the rest of that society shall require; which laws of the society in many things confine the liberty he had by the law of nature.

Sixth-grade teacher Michelle Ferguson-Montgomery’s concealed 9 mm Glock handgun went off in a faculty bathroom at 8:45 a.m. Thursday. Horsley said the teacher was hit by fragments from the toilet and possibly the bullet in her lower left calf. Ferguson-Montgomery, a 14-year veteran of the school, was taken to Intermountain Medical Center for treatment and released.

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By Raf Sanchez, Washington8:00AM BST 12 Sep 2014

Sarah Palin and her family were reportedly involved in a mass brawl at a snowmobile party which had to be broken up by police.

Alaska's gossip blogs lit up with accounts of the Saturday night fight, claiming that the former governor's son and daughter both threw punches while Mrs Palin herself shouted: "Don't you know who I am?" as the scene descended into chaos.

Police confirmed that "some of the Palin family members" were at the party, where a "physical altercation [was] taking place between multiple subjects". A spokesman added: "Alcohol was believed to have been a factor in the incident."

According to Amanda Coyne, an Alaskan political blogger, the incident took place at a party celebrating the Iron Dog snowmobile race, a contest won several times by Mrs Palin's husband Todd.

Mrs Palin's 25-year-old son Track apparently emerged from a Stretch Hummer limousine and got caught up in a fight, soon joined by his younger sister, Bristol. The blogger suggested that the other participant in the fight was a man who had previously dated another sister, Willow Palin.

Track Palin stumbles out of a stretch Hummer, and immediately spots an ex-boyfriend of Willow’s. Track isn’t happy with this guy, the story goes. There’s words, and more. The owner of the house gets involved, and he probably wished he hadn’t. At this point, he’s up against nearly the whole Palin tribe: Palin women screaming. Palin men thumping their chests.

Word is that Bristol has a particularly strong right hook, which she employed repeatedly, and it’s something to hear when Sarah screams, “Don’t you know who I am!” And it was particularly wonderful when someone in the crowd screamed back,

“This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!”


Anchorage Police would not confirm whether the former governor was at the scene, saying that "no arrests were made" and the incident was being looked by detectives and prosecutors.

It wasn't the only drama to befall the Palins in recent days. On Sunday, the day after the fight, a man was arrested for allegedly stalking Bristol Palin.
Miss Palin, now 23, first came to international attention during the 2008 election when it emerged she was pregnant at 17. She was twice engaged to the baby's father, Levi Johnston, but the pair split up without marrying.
Mr Johnston later wrote a book titled "Deer in Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs".

Police said that Miss Palin returned to her home on Sunday to find Peter PW Ferrero, a 25-year-old man from Florida waiting in her driveway. He had allegedly bombarded her with hundreds of Facebook message has been charged with felony.

Ferrero claimed he had climbed up to a third-floor balcony at the house and tried to open a door there, according to a police report.

Sarah Palin’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

“This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!”