Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

"Mike Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> The United States Supreme Court announced this morning that
> it has DENIED the Silveira vs. Lockyer Petition for
> Certiorari. The Supreme Court will not hear the case.
> 
> We should all be thankful for this. For reasons set out by
> long-respected RKBA scholars, this case was disaster, 

Mike, any case that has no constitutional basis is a 
disaster; thus, all your gunlobby inspired cases fail.

I didn't see anything regarding the central issues of this 
case that was very different from other Second Amendment 
challenges.

> now
> narrowly avoided for the most part. See
> http://www.calgunlaws.com/ and
> http://NRAMembersCouncils.com/ for articles.
> 
> RKBA legal experts strongly suggest that those wishing to
> support getting a Second Amendment case before the Supreme
> Court send their money to support a case that does NOT
> arise in the hostile Ninth Circuit or California.  Note 
> that there are two Second Amendment cases being litigated
> in the District of Columbia now, one by the NRA and one by
> CATO Institute. 

Note that gunlobby shill Mike is an expert at telling gun 
owners how to spend their paychecks, even though he can't 
point to any legally binding judgments granting a personal 
gun right under the Second Amendment.

Of course, there's never been any personal gun right under 
the Second Amendment, although we've always enjoyed gun 
rights under state constitutions & statutes.  

Does anybody know what might happen if you got a 
constitutional amendment passed that actually granted you a 
personal gun right under the Second Amendment?  Seems to me 
that instead of your state leg regulating gun ownersgip and 
use, you'd have Congress doing that.  

We know from Garwood's dicta that even if there were a 
personal right to have guns under the Second Amendment, 
Congress could still regulate gun ownership and use; and 
Emerson's spending a few years in federal prison because he 
didn't believe that.

So, besides enriching the gunlobby and keeping the gun 
manufacturers from going completely broke, what are you 
paying for?  A nominal distinction in case law?  There'll 
never be a universal, unlimited right to have guns. 

So what do you want, Mike?  What's the goal?

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