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Why Are Public Defenders Backing a Major Assault on Gun Control?
The Nation ^ | 7/26/2021 | Elie Mystal

Posted on 07/28/2021 8:33:44 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony

In the name of Black gun owners, a coalition of progressive attorneys has thrown its weight behind an explosive attempt to eviscerate gun regulations.

Last week, the gun group got a major assist from criminal defense attorneys. Specifically, the Bronx Defenders, the Brooklyn Defender Services, and the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid. All of these groups represent indigent people accused of criminal conduct, who are often Black or Latinx citizens living in densely populated urban environments. The lawyers joined together to file an amicus brief supporting the position of the mostly upstate and rural interests of the Rifle & Pistol Association and arguing that New York State’s gun licensing requirements should be struck down as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; attorneys; banglist; guncontrol
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1 posted on 07/28/2021 8:33:44 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony
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To: Sixgun Symphony
...arguing that New York State’s gun licensing requirements should be struck down as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

Oh, yeah! That will go over well with Democratic gun grabbers!

Pass the popcorn, please.

2 posted on 07/28/2021 8:50:57 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Sixgun Symphony

Gun control is racist, always has been.


3 posted on 07/28/2021 9:02:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sixgun Symphony

Most public defenders are idealist liberals that’s why.


4 posted on 07/28/2021 9:03:55 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

To say idealist liberals are pro 2A ?


5 posted on 07/28/2021 9:07:55 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: marktwain

Ping. Did you see this?


6 posted on 07/28/2021 9:09:16 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: Sixgun Symphony

Wadda ya mean I need an ID to buy a gun?!?!?


7 posted on 07/28/2021 9:10:34 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: Gene Eric

Oh I read the headline wrong, I am a dummy.


8 posted on 07/28/2021 9:12:00 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: RandallFlagg
Ping. Did you see this?

Yes, working on an article. The brief is well done.

9 posted on 07/28/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: yldstrk

It’s definitely a counterintuitive headline:)


10 posted on 07/28/2021 9:16:12 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Sixgun Symphony

To be clear, the brief to the Supreme Court is well done, but the article by Mystal descends into farce, because she cannot reconcile her assumptions about reality with reality.


11 posted on 07/28/2021 9:17:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marktwain

Sweet. Looking forward to it. Thank you.


12 posted on 07/28/2021 9:36:40 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: Sixgun Symphony

Why the SCOTUS in the 1850s said blacks were NOT US Citizens...

What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.

“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”

Paragraph 77 in the link below.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html


13 posted on 07/28/2021 9:59:48 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: marktwain

do you have a link/ping list for when it’s done?

if so, i’d like to be on it

thx


14 posted on 07/28/2021 10:02:50 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: G Larry

I remember the good old days before the 1968 Gun Control Law.
Every store had guns for sale. Gas stations, pawn shops, hardware stores, book stores, bus stations, clothing stores, liquor stores, grocery stores.
No ID needed.
No background checks.
No waiting periods except in Cali.
No paperwork.
Cash and carry.
Or,
you could chose one from an ad in a gun magazine, drop a check in the mail and it would be shipped to you.

Then a Commie lover shot JFK, and a Palestinian Immigrant shot Bobby Kennedy, and the US went berserk. Today’s anti-gun hysteria is nothing like the madness of 1968-1984, when they suddenly discovered (Gasp) A-s-s-ault rifles!


15 posted on 07/28/2021 10:09:36 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: marktwain

\\Yes, working on an article. The brief is well done.

Do you have a link to the brief?


16 posted on 07/28/2021 10:29:12 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: marktwain
...the brief to the Supreme Court is well done, but the article by Mystal descends into farce, because she cannot reconcile her assumptions about reality with reality.

True.

17 posted on 07/28/2021 10:42:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Senator Elizabeth Warren - illegals ARE DEMOCRATS 'SMALLPOX BLANKETS' GIFTS TO MIDDLE AMERICA)
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To: Sixgun Symphony
Many people who live in high-crime areas think that owning a gun will keep them safe. Those people are wrong. The statistics say they are wrong. Guns do not keep people safe—they kill people.

Hey Elie Mystal:

Arson is NOT fire violence.

Rape is NOT penis violence.

Murder is NOT gun violence.

All the above are CRIMINAL VIOLENCE.

18 posted on 07/28/2021 10:50:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (Senator Elizabeth Warren - illegals ARE DEMOCRATS 'SMALLPOX BLANKETS' GIFTS TO MIDDLE AMERICA)
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To: Sixgun Symphony

The writer confuses legal possession of a firearm with legally carrying a firearm. She quotes, “In 2020, while Black people made up 18 percent of New York’s population, they accounted for 78 percent of the state’s felony gun possession cases.” These people cannot legally possess a firearm because they are “prohibited persons” under the law. They will not apply for a permit to carry because they are prohibited from possessing.


19 posted on 07/28/2021 11:07:58 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Chode
I usually post an excerpt and a link to the article on AmmoLand, after it has been published there for a day, as per my agreement with them.

It is difficult to predict when AmmoLand will publish, as there are other factors besides my wishes which are important to a commercial enterprise.

20 posted on 07/28/2021 11:41:14 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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