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DanTex

(20,709 posts)
12. Do you actually think that NYC's law is unconstitutional?
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 02:28 AM
Jan 2012

We've been over this ground before. We have different readings of the second amendment. You agree with Scalia, me not so much. Although in this situation you appear to even be to the right of Scalia.

But regardless, it's not that "it would have been wise" for her to know about the local gun laws, it's that she committed a felony. For all the talk about "law abiding gun owners", this felony she committed doesn't seem to trouble pro-gunners very much. I guess the idea is to only obey laws you agree with, and pretend that the ones you don't like are unconstitutional.

The whole idea kind of reminds me of the kooks who don't pay their taxes and then try to claim that income taxes are illegal. Those people probably have strange ideas about the second amendment as well. And really, if she wanted to challenge the constitutionality of the law, she should have tried to apply for a NYC permit, and then gotten denied, and then sued. But this obviously had nothing to do with the constitution.

NYC is a very large and densely populated city, and it does a pretty good job protecting it's citizens from gun violence. Tight gun laws are part of that. This woman put herself and others at risk by either her carelessness or disrespect for the law.

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