Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:06:31 -0800, Mike Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> 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, 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.

Millions of Americans are having their gun rights trampled every day, and 
the NRA is now getting around to fighting a three decade old law that was 
unconstitutional the day it was passed.  If the NRA would fight for the 2nd 
with the same rabidity that the ACLU fights for the 1st, then we might not 
be losing so quickly.  The NRA is too often willing to compromise for 
"resonable" restrictions on RKBA.  Can you imagine the ACLU compromising on 
some "minor" free speech issue?  Never.


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