Via David Hardy we have this list of laws infringing upon a fundamental human right which Everytown For Gun Safety fears will will be overturned by SCOTUS.
I would like to think the list is severely in error. But even if they are correct at least it would be a good start.
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
Robert Reich @RBReich
Tweeted on October 17, 2020
[This is where our country sits. It is on the precipice of a Stalinist and/or 1984 dystopia.
Reich is not some random troll or bot. This is a Berkeley professor (no surprise), who served in the administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He is a former Secretary of Labor and was a member of President Obama’s economic transition advisory board. He has a million Twitter followers.
Via Adam Baldwin who gives us these as the “chaser”:
Coincidently, Windy Wilson has relevant commentary on our present situation as well.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
… the vast majority of the American liberals quickly reverted to their prior anti2a positions and cheered on the proposed confiscation plans and helped ram anti2a legislation through every state they could as fast as they could.
They failed to realize that there were over 500 million firearms in the US and those they wished to disarm were those who were the most willing to have molon labe be their last words on this planet.
Piper Smith
Posted on Facebook October 17, 2020
[Interesting introduction to a short story or novel.—Joe]
Since reading this novel, I have read tens of thousands of pages of political thought, historical record and legal documents and have come to understand just where continued gun control is taking us…it is a place I do not wish to go. In the last four years, I have become a champion for the second amendment rights community, a holder of a federal firearms license , a collector with over 60 firearms, a hobby gunsmith and a lobbyist for the firearms community. All this from a person who voted for Clinton his first term! Get John Ross’ book, it will open your eyes.
Amazon
Unintended Consequences
[It is a very good book. I remember when it first came out some people on the Microsoft Gun Club email list referred to it as “The Bible”. That’s overstating it, but it is inspiring and prophetic.—Joe]
We hold that that I-976 violates article II, section 19 because it contains multiple subjects.
Washington State Supreme Court
October 15, 2020
GARFIELD COUNTY ) TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY; ) KING COUNTY; CITY OF ) SEATTLE; WASHINGTON STATE ) TRANSIT ASSOCIATION; ) ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON ) CITIES; PORT OF SEATTLE; ) INTERCITY TRANSIT; ) AMALGAMATED TRANSIT ) UNION LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ) OF WASHIINGTON; and ) MICHAEL ROGERS v. STATE OF WASHINGTON
[I-976 is primarily about reducing car license fees. It also required “Sound Transit’s bonds had to be retired early or refinanced”. The Washington State constitution specifically requires that all initiatives be limited to a single subject. That I-976 violated the constitutional requirement of a single subject resulted in a 9-0 ruling against it.
At first glance the average reader might wonder why this blog would have a particular interest in this case. Let me assure you this is EXTREMELY interesting to gun owners of this state.
I-1639 has so many different subjects that I won’t both to list them all. But here is a sample:
Wouldn’t a reasonable person conclude the above subjects constitute more than one subject? Or would the Washington Supreme Court, which probably has never seen a gun law it didn’t approve of, conclude, “It’s all about guns. This is is a single subject. Case closed.” I give it about a 75% chance the court would claim it’s a single subject.
In addition to the consistent hostility of the court toward gun owners there is another reason why civil rights groups may avoid this approach.
There is already a Federal lawsuit working it’s way through the courts challenging I-1639 on numerous other issues. If the Federal lawsuit succeeds then it has nationwide impact. If a lawsuit in state court succeeds before the Federal lawsuit is concluded then the Federal lawsuit would likely be declared moot and the impact of a victory over I-1639 would be limited to the State of Washington.—Joe]
Via Alison XJ Rhoads.
Such a law would require that I pay a lot more than $3,600.
Enforcement of such a law would cost the enforcers a lot more than the dollars collected.
We need to wrap this shit up. I’m hoping for a Trump victory mostly so that ammo prices will go back down.
Larry Correia
Facebook post on October 12, 2020
[Fair enough.
I would have said you should have stocked up when the prices were reasonable but who would have thought the prices would go this high for this long?—Joe]
Washington, it was. And is.
AND EVER SHALL BE?
We are a questioning people; questions will be asked. To wit: Is the name simply settled history, a historical bridge too far to even discuss? Is it a tad troublesome, but not enough to skip lunch over? Or is it a betrayal, wholly unjustified, a historical wrong deserving of righting?
Ron Judd
October 11, 2020
Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be?
[I have questions:
I don’t believe these people have benign intent. I believe they intend to agitate and divide the people of the state and the country to make us weak.—Joe]
It looks like they’ve made the calculation that emphasizing health care, as opposed to gun control, is a better way to get Democrats elected to those seats.
J. Miles Coleman
Associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics
September 28, 2020
Gun-Control Group Dodges Guns in Swing State Attack Ads — Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund ignores guns to press health care in key states
[As is usual, the anti gun groups require deception to advance their agenda.—Joe]
Republicans won’t be content with a win. They will burn every civil right they can find. Trump’s Hitler Youth-like “patriotic education” plan will become a reality. Gun control will become a remnant of history.
Mike Selinker
September 19, 2020
A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars.
[There so many “interesting” things in this post:
The set of errors found in his article are so numerous and cover such a wide variety of topics that one is forced to conclude he is living in an alternate reality or is knowingly propagating evil.
Prepare and respond appropriately.—Joe]
Good news!
Via Stephen Gutowski we have this report:
A federal court ordered Los Angeles to hand over more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association after ruling that the city had violated the gun-rights group’s First Amendment rights.
We have to take the offensive against these tyrants. It’s nice to have judges who enforce the constitution.
The right to keep and bear arms could be found to be protected both by 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, according to standards set forth in Jones v. Mayer. The court remarked that “history leaves no doubt that, if we are to give [the law] the scope that its origins dictate, we must accord it a sweep as broad as its language. Further, the Thirteenth Amendment clothed “Congress with power to pass all laws necessary and proper for abolishing all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States.” The black code prohibitions on possession of firearms were a badge of slavery.
Stephen P. Halbrook
1998
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 page 194.
[“The black code prohibitions on possession of firearms were a badge of slavery.”
As are prohibitions against any person of legal age and sound mind regarding the possession of firearms.
Via a tweet from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.—Joe]
Via Tamera @tacsgc:
The result is that any law-abiding citizen may lose his liberty, and (not ironically) his Second Amendment rights, as a result of exercising his constitutional right to keep and bear arms if the arm falls within the complicated legal definition of an “assault weapon.” If ever the existence of a state statute had a chilling effect on the exercise of a constitutional right, this is it.
Roger T. Benitez
United States District Judge
September 23, 2020
James Miller, et al., v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, et al.
[Chilling effect!!
This is awesome! It’s an infringement upon a specific enumerated right if it causes a “chilling effect” upon the exercise of that right. This has long been the case for First Amendment infringement law but it wasn’t until 2018 in Illinois that I saw it applied to a Second Amendment case.
This is paving the highway to throwing out most of the stupid gun laws in this nation. Licensing, gun and gun owner registration, and even background checks could get eventually thrown out if we approach this incrementally.—Joe]
John Richardson of No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money has a post about:
a peaceful demonstration in Raleigh on Saturday starting at 10am outside the Wake County Department of Public Safety.
I won’t be attending but if you live in the area please consider contributing your time.
Update: From the comments…
It’s been cancelled because of civil unrest coupled with the NC law against being armed at a protest. We can’t defend ourselves against the mob if they show up on the first Saturday after the Breonna Taylor grand jury report.
Sean D Sorrentino
Via Bobbie Panelli but it can be found many other places as well:
Why Carry a Gun?
My old Grandpa said to me, “Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take a whipping.
I don’t carry a gun to kill people; I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil; I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the World.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government; I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry; I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone; I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man; I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate; I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun because I love it; I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
Police protection is an oxymoron: Free citizens must protect themselves because police do not protect you from crime; they just come after something has happened, investigate the crime to see what happened, and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take a whoopin’!
Via The Dailywire:
See also this article from yesterday.
There are only a few days left to sign the petition urging the White House to prosecute the district attorneys who charged Rittenhouse. I know it’s unlikely the DAs will prosecuted even if enough signatures are obtained. And I know 99,148 signatures in the remaining days is next to impossible. But, please, sign it anyway.
The more signatures we get the closer we are to normalizing the prosecution of those who use the power of government to implement a terrible injustice. These DAs are clearly attempting to cast a chilling effect upon the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. They, and others like them, must face justice. Help normalize the prosecution of these criminals. Sign the petition.
Japan made the same mistake in thinking we could be bullied. They got nuked.
Truth be known. Were just waiting for our wife’s to tell us it’s OK.
MTHead
September 20, 2020
Comment to Quote of the day—Jaime Huffman
[I suspect it’s a little more complicated than that. At least it is for most people. Still, I can see that being a prerequisite. And I would change “wife” to “spouse” if not even broader.—Joe]
And as one of my high school teachers (Andy, who old Orofino Maniacs will remember) was fond of pointing out, in sports if you score one point it takes two to beat it. In this case scoring one point requires three to beat it.
Hang on to your guns and ammo it is gonna be a wild ride.
F Riehl
September 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies, Just as President Trump Releases His List of SCOTUS Judges
[Agreed.—Joe]