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Attorney Mark Smith of the Four Boxes Diner YouTube channel is thrilled that we keep losing at the circuit level over whether machine guns can be banned.
Core of his excitement seems to be that we're avoiding it going to SCOTUS, where we're sure to lose.
Dude. We're already losing. You're celebrating another loss.
I recognize the philosophy he's using. As soon as we have the perfect defendant to fight this all the way to SCOTUS, THEN we pull out all the stops and...
I've been waiting for Mr or Ms Perfect since 1986.
They don't exist.
The kind of person they're looking for doesn't have illegal machine guns. The perfect client doesn't break the law.
The thing about how our rights are supposed to work, and I cannot get lawyers to grasp the philosophy, is they also apply to the scummiest of the scum.
So, no, a scumbag should not be punished for breaking a law that's unconstitutional and they are the people who need to be protected from the government more than the beatified saintly law-abiding citizenry at large.
The Bill of Rights is for everyone, not just the best of us.
Yup. Illegal laws being followed by lawful people. Remember, it was illegal to house Jews in the Netherlands under German occupation. It was legal to turn in said Jews.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't had a perfect client for repealing the 1934 NFA since... 1934. We haven't had a perfect client for repealing the 1968 GCA since... 1968.
And as to lawyers, most of them exist to make money, lots of money. Fighting the NFA or the GCA is expensive and the lawyers who can, individually, argue for repeal are not rich enough or benevolent enough to do it for the kicks. (Unlike the ones that argued for abortion in Roe vs Wade.)
Also, a lot of lawyers are liberals who'd be horrified at the idea of arguing for the right of common peasants to possess icky old *yuck* machine guns---and the ones who aren't have to live, and work, and frequently socialize, with those people. Social disapproval counts for a lot.
DeleteThe battle is gunny Vs gunny. Yesterday I saw a gunny offering four firearms for sale. Nothing stellar about them, little to none collector value, yet the total asking price was $124k.
DeleteOne piece of metal so small that you could balance it on the pad of one finger is what substantiates those absurd prices. Until NFA firearm owners are convinced - for the greater good - that they should just eat the tens of thousands of dollars they paid out, nothing on this front will change.
Don't worry, Tam assured us years ago that NFA people didn't care about the investment value of their collections.
DeleteOh... wait...