I don’t understand how the rest of the bill of rights can be apply to states and not the second amendment. If it doesn’t apply then none of the other do either.
What every article I read on this case misses, quite importantly, that gun blogs have gotten for several years, is that the strategy of Gura et al. is an incremental one, using carefully selected court cases to assault the bastion of legislation and case law that has been built around individual citizens’ right to self defense and firearms rights over the last century and a half, since blacks were freed and Democrats got upset over that.
When this is all over, decades from now, I suspect that Gura will be as revered a litigator as Thurgood Marshall, who brought down school segregation. Never mind that the states and courts found ways to foul up desegregation, costing generations of inner city blacks the opportunity of a good education, what Marshall did was an amazing and successful destruction of a century of bigotry in action. Gura will be as or more successful, I think, and I wish him the best of success with his next several cases.
costing generations of inner city blacks the opportunity of a good education
Are you implying Mikee that everyone else in the inner city got a good education, or that it was only blacks that were magically denied the exact opportunity that others at the same schools were given? This isn’t the matrix where you just plug in and are magically given something you didn’t know. An education is earned and developed by the students work no matter how much money thrown at “education” that is what folks fail to understand.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I don’t understand how the rest of the bill of rights can be apply to states and not the second amendment. If it doesn’t apply then none of the other do either.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Two words: Selective incorporation.
The Chicago case, assuming it goes our way (cross fingers) should help fix that.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
What every article I read on this case misses, quite importantly, that gun blogs have gotten for several years, is that the strategy of Gura et al. is an incremental one, using carefully selected court cases to assault the bastion of legislation and case law that has been built around individual citizens’ right to self defense and firearms rights over the last century and a half, since blacks were freed and Democrats got upset over that.
When this is all over, decades from now, I suspect that Gura will be as revered a litigator as Thurgood Marshall, who brought down school segregation. Never mind that the states and courts found ways to foul up desegregation, costing generations of inner city blacks the opportunity of a good education, what Marshall did was an amazing and successful destruction of a century of bigotry in action. Gura will be as or more successful, I think, and I wish him the best of success with his next several cases.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Let’s hope the media continues to miss what gun bloggers and their readers understand.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Are you implying Mikee that everyone else in the inner city got a good education, or that it was only blacks that were magically denied the exact opportunity that others at the same schools were given? This isn’t the matrix where you just plug in and are magically given something you didn’t know. An education is earned and developed by the students work no matter how much money thrown at “education” that is what folks fail to understand.