Message to the NRA: We will not let you become the law.
Judge Eyelash is ready for her close-up.
On the FL legislation part of the article, Iâm so sick of hearing about half-measures in a vain attempt to slam the barn door after the cows are already out. âWhat could we have done to stop this last shooting from happening again?â Letâs raise the age limit or some other such nonsense.
The only way to stop mass gun murders is to make guns so much harder to get and to hold. Regulate the living crap out of them and let the public bask in the freedom from fear of a gun massacre. Problem solved. Instead, stupid extreme ideas in the other direction always get a full airing, like arming teachers or more security or more mental health commitments which just discard the person to get them out of sight.
Iâd say that anyone who WANTS an assault rifle (except to keep at a registered and regulated gun range) is mentally ill and should be allowed to have one. Iâd say anyone who wants a handgun âfor protectionâ is stupid and their judgment canât be trusted to have one. Somehow, the most of the rest of the civilized world has realized this and gotten control of guns.
If only Donnie had opened his Trump Brand Mental Institutions in timeâŚ
Who better to run them than a stable genius?
The legal rationale is that when you are so totally fucked, it doesnât matter who the judge is.
My thoughts exactly⌠I donât expect the jury deliberations to go long in this one.
Next up, Cruz throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
Who is going to pay these lawyers? Most common reason to bail.
I donât know what, if any, prejudices toward the prosecution this judge may have.
i know two defense attorneys and a retired judge and they tell me these judges who are brazenly prejudicial on the side of the prosecution are hurting their own cause by creating causes for appeals.
The competent judges are totally impartial in court, display no leanings.
That insures a trial more likely to be seen as fair no matter how heinous the crime.
Itâs not the lawyers who want to bail. They want the judge to recuse herself from the case because of her previous rulings and comments. Admittedly, itâs difficult to grasp this from the headline. TPM headlines have a way of being like that.
Aha. Now I understand, thanks.
And yeah, good luck with that.
Youâve run into that most impressive of situations, the Catch-22 of gun rights (at least according to certain interpretations of the 2nd Amendment):
If they were sane, some say they have a right to own an assault rifle, but the desire to want to own an assault rifle is insane, so they shouldnât be allowed to own one. Itâs too bad this isnât the default interpretation of most decision-makers on this issue.
Message to tsp: the GOP already did years agoâŚ
Itâs a ritualized kabuki dance, nothing more. They go through these motions, knowing perfectly well they wonât actually pass anything.
Two points. The âright to self protectionâ was created out of thin air by none other than Constitutionalist orginalist Anton Scalia. There is no mention of such a right, or any an inference of any such right. Secondly, if guns actually protected people and households, then people buying guns would see their insurance rates drop. They donât Instead they go up. Because the actuaries have determined that guns are more likely go shoot someone in the house than any intruder, therefore are a higher risk.
As a caveat to the second point, South Dakota passed legislation in the wake of Newton to arm teachers. It has not been implemented. The reason? Because not a single insurance company in America will issue them the liability policies that would be required. Because it INCREASES the liability, not decrease it.
That is a problem with headlines here. I, too, thought the attorneys were trying to get out of representing him until I read the article.
Liability, schmiability. Itâs liberty that matters. The tree must be watered, and we volunteer your kids to have the great honor of doing so.
Yeah, looking at todayâs headlines, it took me a while to figure out why the US was sending an envoy to a North Koreanâs retirement.