From Chad Mizelle @ChadMizelle47, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice:
Today, the Department of Justice announced its first investigation (of many, if need be) into whether States and localities—today, Los Angeles County, California—are engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
As Justice Thomas has explained, “the Second Amendment warrants the same respect as any other constitutional right.”
Or as the Supreme Court
But many States and localities keep insisting on treating the Second Amendment as a second-class right.
California has been a particularly egregious offender.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has bragged about having the strictest gun control laws in the country.
California Governor Gavin Newsom even called for a “28th Amendment” to restrict Second Amendment rights after recent pro-Second Amendment decisions from the Supreme Court.
To make things worse, many California localities appear to be imposing additional burdens beyond those required by state law, including by imposing expensive fees and lengthy wait times for concealed handgun licenses.
THIS MUST END. Today, the Civil Rights Division announced an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether it is engaging in a pattern or practice of infringing Second Amendment rights.
There is more, but you get the drift. Newsom’s own tweets were quoted, and I presume will be used at his trial.
I believe I have been pushing for this longer than anyone. I first read the law back in the early 2000s and talked to other gun owners about it. No one could imagine it happening. And nothing did happen.
There was a time when blacks in the deep south believed there would never be prosecutions for the KKK terrorism. They also believed there would be no justice for the lynchings.
Times change. And the time for gun owners to believe in justice has arrived. We have long known that prosecutions are needed to stop the relentless oppression. New laws are created faster than the courts can respond. There must be consequences for their criminal acts.
And now there is a serious threat of consequences.
If prosecutions actually take place, I will search through all the comments. I will look for those who insisted the trials would never happen. Then I’m going to put them all in one blog post. And I will give one last lecture on moving the Overton Window. And how things happen in a manner similar to an earthquake. The pressure builds and then there is a sudden shift as things slip into a new alignment. There is a new reality. A reality that most people were unable to see just a short time before.
Then we can all enjoy the trials together.
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