We spoke on Tuesday about California Attorney General Jerry Brown petitioning the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Chicago's gun ban. 33 other state AGs have also lent their names to the effort.
From NRA-ILA:
Two-thirds of the nation’s attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general, along with the Attorney General of California in a separate filing, agrees with the NRA’s position that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms in the home for self-defense, disagreeing with the decision recently issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
You can read their brief here.
One of the AGs, Mike Cox of Michigan, addressed criticism of his signing the brief in The Detroit Free Press. He does a good job and I encourage you to read his rebuttal.
I like his ending the best:
I make no apologies for my support of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Amen. None of us should.
Here are the states that joined in the amicus brief. As mentioned, California acted on its own:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
If your state is not listed, contact your attorney general and give him an earful. Here's a resource to help you do that, or to thank yours for doing the right thing.
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Media continues its war on guns
From Jennifer Freeman of Liberty Belles:
The media has been largely successful in their gun-ban propaganda campaign. Not only do we have more than 10,000 gun laws on the books, but gun owners are routinely demonized as criminals and racists. But, that's not enough. The Sacramento Bee published an article on July 7, 2009 in what amounts to the beginning of a campaign to ban all semi-automatic rifles in California.
Click here to read the rest of this article.
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Comments
I would add that the Texas AG is jockeying for the Govs. chair, being that the Guv. is a two-faced filthy liar, and both Senators are cheese-eating surrender monkeys. And things are heating up here in Texas, but it ain't got nothing to do with the thermometer.
I read the brief yesterday. First, the bad news: It repeats the troubling language from Heller. The good news: The attorneys general "went there" right out of the gate, _explicitly_ invoking the defense-against-tyranny and racist-roots-of-gun-control arguments. I would _love_ to have seen Eric Holder's face when he first read it.
Called the TN AG yesterday to complain and demand a press release explaining why he didn't support the brief. Of all the states...
I would note that Jerry Brown wrote a rather two-faced document. He first states that without a Federal protection, residents of Californa have NO Right to own guns.
This means if the SCOTUS decides against inclusion, Brown and the others like him can claim there is no Right to own a gun in California and begin to ban them completely.
Considering the history of Jerry Brown, I would never expect him to come out swinging for the Second Amendment.
I am glad my rights don't depend on the willingness of the rulers to recognize them, but it would be nice if the tax-parasites would stop trying to violate my rights with every breath they take.
Now, I know this is going to be met with skepticism, but I sort of admire Jerry Brown.
Yeah, you read it right. Brown has managed to successfully defeat any incursions of sanity into his philosophical make-up, all while ignoring the impinging nature of reality on his world, whatever world he is from. One must admire the dedication necessary to be such a completely clueless bastard for more than six decades. Though it would be folly of the highest order to admire or even respect his opinions or his person, the dedication it takes to remain as anti-humanity as Jerry Brown has, is formidable.
That he is not alone means this will not be an easy fight and will almost certainly call for more than civilized dissent.
I tend to think that Kommiefornia is going to have it's hands full when SCOTUS incorporates the 2nd. The 9th Circuit has already said as much and SCOTUS told them to do so in Heller. The 2nd and 7th are out of line with Heller. It would be ridiculous to think they would now reverse themselves. To add to Kommiefornias problem only 2% of owners of semi automatic rifles that are supposed to be registered have complied, with more than 15 years to do so. Somehow I don't think they are going to comply. I also dont think the state wil be able to keep or pass a ban while the law of the land plainly says that complete bans of a weapon type are unacceptable.
I don't think that what Jerry Brown says or doesn't say matters much one way or the other for the state, but for the people, it is looking good that there is a branch of the federal government that will stand up for their rights. How strange it is that we are so often fighting the feds off to find ourselves welcoming them into the fray.
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