I think we’re getting to the point now where even the more cynical gun rights supporters need to admit that President Trump is doing pretty well on Second Amendment issues.
We need a Supreme Court that is willing to actively police the hostile circuits and summarily reverse them frequently. We also need Judge VanDyke to become Justice VanDyke.
Of course, it isn’t really about the GLOCK switches at all. Antigunners salivate at the chance to ban one of the most popular handguns in the country.
Lots of things had gone into the pressure cooker that eventually exploded into the American Revolution, but the ultimate intolerable act, the spark that made the patriots decide it was time to start shooting was the British attempt to disarm them.
The problem is far more nuanced than Mascia is willing to acknowledge. Her article makes only a passing mention of the racial disparities in the data. She doesn’t provide those numbers, so I will.
I imagine if Trump (or any other President for that matter) ignores SCOTUS after a Snope denial, the response from much of the pro-2A side will be, “Good. They wouldn’t defend our rights, why should we give a shit about them being ignored?”
In an environment where some of the left seems to be embracing political violence, committing terrible crimes to influence a Court ruling wouldn’t be all that surprising.
If Duncan were to be denied cert, that would mean the terrible Ninth Circuit ruling would go into effect. Thousands of Californians would have to give up millions of their Freedom Week magazines. Inevitably, many of them would refuse.
Bondi is due to report back to Trump today in response to his Protecting the Second Amendment executive order.
If I’m out with my toddler and a lunatic comes at us with a knife, I shouldn’t have to waste time (while under an adrenaline rush) calculating whether I have a chance to escape before shooting to defend my little girl and myself.
