In praise of anti-gun defiance

[TPaine7]

I must express my thanks to those who have fought tooth and nail to ensure that sane, law abiding adult Americans lack the means to defend themselves. Sure their cause is morally and logically reprehensible. Sure their government officials are, in large part, hypocrites who will  not hesitate to arm themselves and their bodyguards (and spouses and relatives and mistresses and fellow thugs). It is true that they are defying the Constitution and even the current, popular will of the American people. But I believe that credit must be given where it is due.

So I sing your praises, extremists! Without you, there never would have been a Heller decision, or a McDonald. States and localities would still be flying in the face of the Framers of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments--with relative impunity.

I think you should keep up the good work. Every little tinpot dictator and anti-constitutional thug should engage in what one judge perceptively called "thumbing of the municipal nose at the Supreme Court." ( http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/9C0NWF4M.pdf  p 52). I think your lawyers should keep making pathetic arguments that will elicit devastating rulings. I think that DC and Chicago and Hawaii and LA should not give up the "good fight" until they are stripped of their ability to make laws affecting guns and court appointed experts take over that role. I think they should force even the most reluctant courts to concede that their bad faith tactics demand the strictest of strict scrutiny.

More power to the extremists!

I'm tempted to donate to the Brady Campaign and the VPC... but  not enough to actually follow through.