No, I wouldn't.
You think you can end discrimination by writing laws protecting people like Rosa Parks? You think things will be better in this country if people are forced to allow Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus?
I mean if you, personally, have something against the licensing and registration of certain weapons, you are free to ignore the law. But don't think you're acting in some sort of high-level moral capacity, understandable and acceptable by society in general.
Stealing bread to feed your family, "pulling the plug" on a loved one in pain ... these are understandable, albeit illegal, actions. Refusing to register an illegal machine gun ... well, I doubt you'll get much sympathy in a court of law.
Work to change the laws. Get a consensus. Campaign to change the hearts and minds. Educate people. That's the way it's done. That way it's permanent.
If it were a private company that would be one thing, but the bus was run by a government agency. You bet I think things are better off that way.
Stealing bread to feed your family, "pulling the plug" on a loved one in pain ... these are understandable, albeit illegal, actions. Refusing to register an illegal machine gun ... well, I doubt you'll get much sympathy in a court of law. Work to change the laws. Get a consensus. Campaign to change the hearts and minds. Educate people. That's the way it's done. That way it's permanent.
The unique problem with firearms is that by the time one works to change those laws, it might be too late. Ensuring that there is an armed populace, legal or not, is absolutely moral. In fact, in my opinion, complying with these laws would actually be immoral.
"-- if you, personally, have something against the licensing and registration of certain weapons, you are free to ignore the law. But don't think you're acting in some sort of high-level moral capacity, understandable and acceptable by society in general.
Incredible position when the fact that our 'Law of the Land' on firearms infringements is taken into account. [of course, - you refuse its validity]
Stealing bread to feed your family, "pulling the plug" on a loved one in pain ... these are understandable, albeit illegal, actions. Refusing to register an illegal machine gun ... well, I doubt you'll get much sympathy in a court of law.
Yep, not in our courts as presently constituted. - Seeing that they seem to agree with you that a machine gun can be decreed to be "illegal", despite the clear "not be infringed" wording of the Amendment.
One wonders how these judges can justify ignoring their oaths to support Constitutional Amendments..
How do you do it paulsen? Or don't you support and defend ~any~ parts of the Constitution?