Had a client who wanted a license to own and carry, but an ancient (early 80s) conviction of a crime had become a lifetime ban as a result of a 21st century state statute. There were ways to pursue this through the state courts, and judge shopping would have been involved, as it would be a jurist's whim to grant or deny. But after months of research (just digging up the records of this one incident took inordinate amount of time as the digitization and destruction of old files is all too commonplace now, and what gets saved is often incomprehensible), and time spent with the client ~ I came to the conclusion I'd better turn into an advertizing agency for a radical "second amendment" attorney from another part of the state instead. Why? Because my personal judgment of the man was that he should not be armed, and going forward I'd be secretly wishing the judge's whim would rule against us.
Guns are so unnecessary for anyone living in our urbanized suburbs. That our schools are now militarized zones is vomit worthy. Then too, so are the majority of our Supremes, for over the course of my 35 years at the bar they've converted that institution into a bizarrely anti-humanist tool, and too, they act as the loyal servants for the rich and militant-minded souls wrecking havoc on our social order planet-wide.
Then there's trying to explain what's going on for others to understand...well done in your efforts to make some sense out of the current state of play, counsel, keep up the good work.
Is interpreting the definition of the Second Amendment - unhinged from a well ordered militia - as a physical expression of the First Amendment not unlike the twisted "Citizens United" decision rendering "paper persons" more powerful than the overwhelming numbers of actual breathing human beings? The uphill recourse to Article Five would then require the upending of the latter perverse decision. The opening of a Gun Rights division within the profoundly distorted Civil Rights division of the Justice Department would be an expression of the hyper hierarchal white Christian Nationalist Project 2025 & by the states that are held captive Republican executive, legislative & judicial trifectas, would it not? More than 3x the magic 3.5% of citizens in Israel have been engaged in protests & legal efforts to undo their perverse current government. Are or can there be enough of us to engage in a sustained effort to remove, undo & constructively replace what the syphilitic order of Trumpenis has inserted continually into our body politic?
I really appreciate your analysis here. For me too, the modern 2nd Amendment's judicial rulings have deeply distorted any sensible reading of the other rights we are supposed to have in our Constitution.
We have a lot of work to do to bring actual justice-- that goes hand in hand with compassion-- to replace vigilantism and our love affair with violence. My 'right' to be judge, jury and executioner of large groups of people with the press of a button is simply insane, and as dehumanizing as it can be.
Had a client who wanted a license to own and carry, but an ancient (early 80s) conviction of a crime had become a lifetime ban as a result of a 21st century state statute. There were ways to pursue this through the state courts, and judge shopping would have been involved, as it would be a jurist's whim to grant or deny. But after months of research (just digging up the records of this one incident took inordinate amount of time as the digitization and destruction of old files is all too commonplace now, and what gets saved is often incomprehensible), and time spent with the client ~ I came to the conclusion I'd better turn into an advertizing agency for a radical "second amendment" attorney from another part of the state instead. Why? Because my personal judgment of the man was that he should not be armed, and going forward I'd be secretly wishing the judge's whim would rule against us.
Guns are so unnecessary for anyone living in our urbanized suburbs. That our schools are now militarized zones is vomit worthy. Then too, so are the majority of our Supremes, for over the course of my 35 years at the bar they've converted that institution into a bizarrely anti-humanist tool, and too, they act as the loyal servants for the rich and militant-minded souls wrecking havoc on our social order planet-wide.
Then there's trying to explain what's going on for others to understand...well done in your efforts to make some sense out of the current state of play, counsel, keep up the good work.
Is interpreting the definition of the Second Amendment - unhinged from a well ordered militia - as a physical expression of the First Amendment not unlike the twisted "Citizens United" decision rendering "paper persons" more powerful than the overwhelming numbers of actual breathing human beings? The uphill recourse to Article Five would then require the upending of the latter perverse decision. The opening of a Gun Rights division within the profoundly distorted Civil Rights division of the Justice Department would be an expression of the hyper hierarchal white Christian Nationalist Project 2025 & by the states that are held captive Republican executive, legislative & judicial trifectas, would it not? More than 3x the magic 3.5% of citizens in Israel have been engaged in protests & legal efforts to undo their perverse current government. Are or can there be enough of us to engage in a sustained effort to remove, undo & constructively replace what the syphilitic order of Trumpenis has inserted continually into our body politic?
I really appreciate your analysis here. For me too, the modern 2nd Amendment's judicial rulings have deeply distorted any sensible reading of the other rights we are supposed to have in our Constitution.
We have a lot of work to do to bring actual justice-- that goes hand in hand with compassion-- to replace vigilantism and our love affair with violence. My 'right' to be judge, jury and executioner of large groups of people with the press of a button is simply insane, and as dehumanizing as it can be.
Thanks Wade, appreciate you engaging with this!