Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Major Second Amendment Case

Reason ^ | May. 5, 2014 | Damon Root

[marktwain]

“Pretty good indication this won’t be settled peacefully.”

I do not agree. We are on the edge of winning this legislatively. We have the votes in the House and Senate to enact national reciprocity. New Jersey and New York would be dragged screaming, into shall issue when their residents find that anyone from out of state can carry in all states.

[cuban leaf]

My take: We are long past a political solution. But that’s just me. I think politics will come to our side when the Phoenix rises from the ashes.

If that’s any consolation.

[Blue Collar Christian]

“...elicits more sympathy than Drake, e.g. a physician who makes house calls in a state that hates the 2nd Amendment.”

So a “may issue” policy continues I think.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I, like yourself, Mr. Clemens, hold out hope for legislative solution, but predict a USSC ruling anti to the reciprocity law, if Obama doesn’t veto the bill. I don’t believe the votes are there in Congress to over ride his veto.

[Cheerio]

Revolution Or Martial Law

[Blue Collar Christian]

Rev. Manning may be right. He certainly isn’t “Wright”.

He’s gonna get some heat over this one.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art., quoting Alan Gura] "If the government can force you to provide a reason to exercise your right, then it's no longer a right."

Not quite right. The right still exists; the government is merely attempting to infringe or deny the right (and injure the citizen for its own purposes).

[lentulusgracchus]

Glad I live in an open carry state. Perhaps all the non gunners should live in certain states with the “amish” and leave the rest of us a lone.

My own modest proposal has been to partition New York State at the Croton River and the centerline of the Hudson, down past Sandy Hook to the sea, and allow downstate New Yorkers, Long Guylanders, and their fellow-travelers in the "Boston States" the same courtesy a New York editor once suggested for the South: "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

With 30,000,000 'Rats out of the Union (and presumably absorbed by an equally-socialist Canada), we could restore order to our house by exiling the Left Coast traitors and Stalinists in Gay Bay, and using the Army to encourage illegal invaders in Illinois, Texas, and southern California to "depart in peace" for their homelands.

[Hot Tabasco]

I suspect it's the SC's recognizing the state's right to determine if "open carry" should be legal...........

FWIW, Michigan is an open carry state and it didn't require the SC to decide it.........

[defconw]

That could work.

[neverdem]

My own modest proposal has been to partition New York State at the Croton River and the centerline of the Hudson, down past Sandy Hook to the sea, and allow downstate New Yorkers, Long Guylanders, and their fellow-travelers in the "Boston States" the same courtesy a New York editor once suggested for the South: "Wayward sisters, depart in peace.">

Almost all the ideas for gun grabbing come from big cities. Those living in rural and suburban areas of those states would probably prefer to be excluded.

[lentulusgracchus]

We can save upstate and western New York, probably (even with Dem-voting Buffalo and those other towns), but IMHO nothing can be done to retrieve exurban New Hampshire and Vermont from the clutches of their downstate Zombie Mobs ^(TM).