” The only reason CA gets away with flouting federal pot laws, is a policy decision by the feds to not enforce the federal pot laws. “On the law books,” federal law trumps the state.”
indeed this policy choice was not the case until Obama took office, California has been ignoring the Federal pot acts for a lot longer then that and doing so quite successfully. Despite the so called “War on drugs” the feds have not the resources to seriously enforce domestic laws.
This is made more evident seeing how California is by far not the only state doing this, a great many states are ignoring the Unconstitutional federal drug acts. as a result the Federal government already finite enforcement resources were are already heavily taxed.
Montana and Tennessee merely need to wait for more of the rest of the conservative states to follow suit, and regardless of Federal enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws, it will be for the most part legal.
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The policy decision regarding enforcement of gun laws is to enforce them with vigor. Stewart was convicted, his conviction was upheld, and he may be in jail today, for all I know.”
There are many people in California and many other states who were similarly persecuted, but many many more who were not.
“I agree that it lacks the rational logic and moral authority. But the feds are asserting rule of law by subterfuge and the power of brute force. Overwhelming brute force works as an authority too. The US is just a glorified banana republic.”
That there is the issue, the Federal government was never meant to have the “power of brute force” to enforce domestic laws like this as they were never meant to have domestic laws like this peroid.
Despite the unconstitutional existents of the ATF, FBI, ect... The Federal “law enforcement” forces are still relativity few in number.
In our efforts to nully their unconstitutional acts we need merely to wait until enough of our sister states have done like wise to create such a large area of “civil disobedience” as to render their unconstitutional act practically dead and thus powerless.
Eventually congress will stop wanting to spend money in purest to power they are not effectually obtaining, and repeal the law.
Or just have one gunshop, way back in the Bayou.