But if, for example, gay people conduct festivals or whatever on county property where they sell their various gay perversions, then why would equal protection under the law be a factor?
No matter how you slice it or dice it, the counties ban is there because they don’t like guns and they don’t like gun people.
I am certain that if the history of all fatalities on county property was examined, they would find far more people dying from traffic accidents than guns - but we don’t hear a peep about the county banning cars.
Sally King said exactly that. She made no bones about it. It was her vituperative anti-gun bigotry which made Don Kilmer decide to name her as the first plaintiff, rather than the County of Alameda - so that her name and her shameful bigotry would go down in history.
From the opinion, page 4471:
But the Nordykes insist that something more sinister was afoot. They point to some of King’s other statements as evidence that she actually intended to drive the gun shows out of Alameda County. Shortly before proposing the Ordinance, King sent a memorandum to the County Counsel asking him to research “the most appropriate way” she might “prohibit the gun shows” on County property. King declared she had “been trying to get rid of gun shows on Country property” for “about three years,” but she had “gotten the run around from spineless people hiding behind the constitution, and been attacked by aggressive gun toting mobs on right wing talk radio.” At her press conference, King also said that the County should not “provide a place for people to display guns for worship as deities for the collectors who treat them as icons of patriotism.”