Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

"Mike Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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>> >> BTW, Reuters says the NRA supported this appeal:
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>> http://news.findlaw.com/politics/s/20031201/courtgunsdc.htm
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>> >> Is that right, Mike?
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>> > Both you and Reuters have to pay closer attention, and
>> > Reuters should DEFINITELY know better.
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>> > NRA filed an Amicus Brief in support of Silveira, but
>> > only after it looked like it had a chance of winning
>> > cert. That's because NRA *has* to be involved in any
>> > Second Amendment case that gets to the USSC - it is
>> > their responsibility to it's members to help insure
>> > EVERY 2A USSC case the best chance of winning, IF IT GOT
>> > THERE.  That is not to say NRA wanted the case to get
>> > there. 
 
> ...[Lee's silly spin SNIPPED - not even GOOD spin,
> disappointed in you Lee]...

I see, so the NRA supported Silveira with an amicus brief 
because they really didn't want it to succeed?

That sounds logical.  No Second Amendment cases supported by 
the NRA have ever been granted certiorari, have they Mikey?

If the goal were ever achieved, the gravy train would soon run 
down, eh Mikey?

Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh.

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It was, in many ways, a David versus Goliath battle. The 
anti-Proposition B forces had very little money to spend on 
advertising (under $300,000) and the NRA poured several 
million dollars worth of advertising into the state's media 
markets to promote the measure. One couldn't turn on the 
radio anywhere in the state during the spring of 1999 
without hearing a pro-Proposition B ad. The same could not 
be said for ads opposing the measure, which were seldom 
heard outside of St. Louis and Kansas City. Considering the 
conservative reputation of the state and the huge 
advertising money disparity, the measure was expected to 
pass easily.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the Prop B 
celebration. On April 6, 1999, Proposition B was defeated --
which shocked the measure's proponents who had expected an 
overwhelming victory. It was defeated by a fairly narrow 
margin of about 44,000 votes out of a total of 1.3 million. 
Opponents of right to carry legislature claim the defeat of 
the measure in an "off-cycle" election shows Missourians do 
not support such laws and contend that the margin of defeat 
in a much higher turnout election (such as a general 
election in November) would be much greater --especially if 
opponents had a larger advertising budget. Proponents of 
right to carry claim they won 104 of Missouri's 114 
counties, so their views represent the true "hearts of 
souls" of Missourians. Of course, the 10 counties that voted 
against the measure (including, by the way, my own sparsely 
populated rural county) have a combined population much 
greater than that of the combined population of the 104 that 
favored it but that doesn't seem to make much difference to 
those who often use this geographic argument to claim they 
"really" won in April of 1999. 


Does the NRA Mistrust Democracy?

By Thomas Spencer



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