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A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to circumvent the congressional stalemate on gun reform by pressing for violence prevention efforts at the local level.
The coalition, Legislators for Safer Communities, aims to capitalize on the shifting politics of gun reform by focusing more attention on state legislatures, where violence prevention advocates have scored their biggest wins in recent years.
Roque Planas
September 17, 2024
State Lawmakers Have Gun Reform Strategy | HuffPost Latest News
I have to wonder about something which is not mentioned, the courts. The really active gun owner rights groups are getting more done with fewer people and fewer dollars in the Federal courts than they can in the state legislatures. They don’t have to fight the same fights every year in every state.
Are the anti-gun people just trying to keep the money coming in by giving their supporters false hope? Or do they believe the Democrats are soon going to neuter SCOTUS and reverse our wins?
“Are the anti-gun people just trying to keep the money coming in by giving their supporters false hope?
1 Well, there is this thing we call “the grift”
“Or do they believe the Democrats are soon going to neuter SCOTUS and reverse our wins?”
“Or”?
I submit for your consideration, the mighty power of “And”.
They are counting on nullification working long enough to retake control of the Supreme Court. State legislatures passing serial unconstitutional laws are a part of this.
Agree. They’re playing the long game. We have to play never ending whac-a-mole, they ignore Heller / McDonald / Bruen and pass whatever the hell they want at the state levels. Hell, DE passed a permit to purchase law just weeks after Bruen.
“ Or do they believe the Democrats are soon going to neuter SCOTUS and reverse our wins?”
Yes. Because it will happen. How much ground have we lost on the state level in just the past 3 years?