Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Nothing 'Common-Sense' or Safe

Such laws are drafted and enforced to thwart legal gun ownership...[More]
Finally -- "gun control" that works!

[Via Michael G]

Posted by David Codrea at 3/11/2020 12:29:00 PM

3 comments:

Ed said...

Imagine that! Someone believes that the Civil rights he has in Alabama are also the Civil Rights he has in New York. He needs to reread Judge Taney's 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford and understand that some consider all of us to be slaves regardless of skin color.

"The legislation of the States therefore shows in a manner not to be mistaken the inferior and subject condition of that race at the time the Constitution was adopted and long afterwards, throughout the thirteen States by which that instrument was framed, and it is hardly consistent with the respect due to these States to suppose that they regarded at that time as fellow citizens and members of the sovereignty, a class of beings whom they had thus stigmatized, whom, as we are bound out of respect to the State sovereignties to assume they had deemed it just and necessary thus to stigmatize, and upon whom they had impressed such deep and enduring marks of inferiority and degradation, or, that, when they met in convention to form the Constitution, they looked upon them as a portion of their constituents or designed to include them in the provisions so carefully inserted for the security and protection of the liberties and rights of their citizens. It cannot be supposed that they intended to secure to them rights and privileges and rank, in the new political body throughout the Union which every one of them denied within the limits of its own dominion. More especially, it cannot be believed that the large slaveholding States regarded them as included in the word citizens, or would have consented to a Constitution which might compel them to receive them in that character from another State. For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police[p417] regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own safety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393

3/11/2020 1:54 PM
GaryM said...

Leaving New York City for Missouri in 1966 was one of the smartest things I've ever done. Is Missouri perfect in it's gun laws? No, but compared to NYC it is perfect.

3/11/2020 8:16 PM
vintovka said...

I have to disagree with the author of the article. In America's multi-tier justice system, a professional athlete gets special treatment. If he were a Mundane like me, he would receive a jail term. But since he is a Player, at worse he gets a suspended sentence. Pretty dumb, if you ask me, to take your gun to a Port Authority terminal and attempt to check it...

3/12/2020 10:19 AM

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