Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:20:51 GMT, Mongo Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > In talk.politics.guns ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:36:46 GMT, Mongo Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > In talk.politics.guns ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Tell us what YOU have been doing since that day thirty years ago. Be
> > > specific.
> >
> > The vast majority of that time was spent in various schools getting an 
> > education.  Now I work for a living.  At no time in the last 27 years 
> > did I live in Washington D.C. or claim to be a gun rights activist.
>
> I see. So, basically, you've done nothing to protect your rights as a
> gun owner.
>
> But you feel perfectly free to chastise the NRA for just "now getting
> around to fighting" a unconstitutional law.

You need to work on your understanding of context.  My post was in reply to 
a well known NRA operative gloating about a case that the NRA did not 
support being dropped by SCOTUS, and using it as an opportunity to plug 
their own 27 year too late suit.

As I pointed out, neither case affects my daily life, so I stick with local 
issues.  I think it could be a good thing if SCOTUS determined that gun 
control was a state's issue.  It would remove all of the cumbersome federal 
regulations, and force all of the restrictions to be made at the state 
level where IME individuals have much more influence.

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