Posted on 07/06/2010 4:56:18 PM PDT by cryptical
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Fairfax, Va. -- The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit against Mayor Richard Daley and the City of Chicago's newly adopted gun control ordinance, which violates the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Last Friday, the City Council rushed through passage of this ordinance in response to the Court's June 28th decision rendering Chicago’s draconian handgun ban unconstitutional.
“The Supreme Court has now said the Second Amendment is an individual freedom for all. And that must have meaning,” said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. “This decision cannot lead to different measures of freedom, depending on what part of the country you live in. City by city, person by person, this decision must be more than a philosophical victory. An individual right is no right at all if individuals can’t access it.”
Just four days after the Court struck down the nearly 30 year-long handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago enacted the most restrictive anti-gun ordinance in the United States. In the words of Corporation Counsel Mara Georges, the top attorney for the City: “We've gone farther than anyone else ever has.” The so-called “Responsible Gun Ownership Ordinance” provisions include: a prohibition on all gun sales inside the City; a prohibition on possession of firearms for self-defense outside the “home” -- even on a patio or in an attached garage; a prohibition on more than one assembled and operable firearm in the home; and a training requirement to obtain a Chicago Firearm Permit. However, range training would be impossible since it will now be unlawful to operate a shooting range inside city limits.
“The Supreme Court told Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago that it has to respect the Second Amendment. By enacting this ordinance, their response is 'Make Us',” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “The NRA will not rest until Chicago's law-abiding residents can exercise the same freedoms that our Founding Fathers intended all Americans to have.”
Recent statements from some of Chicago's city officials reflect their complete lack of respect for the Supreme Court decision. Alderman Daniel Solis stated, “the decision made by the Supreme Court is not really in the best interests of our citizens.” Alderman Sharon Denise Dixon denounced what she called the Court’s “blatant… misreading of the law.” And another city council member even went so far as to say, “[w]e’re here today because of their poor judgment."
The case is Benson v. City of Chicago.
Hey man, you back or just pass’n through?
it’s ‘ole 2.5, the GOA hating NRA member…
Here is a thread where you spewed your typical, and not very enlightened rant, without listening to a word someone else says… Typical 2.5 whining rant about the GOA.
and here you are in another thread and using your typical whining rant with me… 2.5 gets the real facts and then gets caught in a couple of, well let’s say... factual distortions.
And yet again, after being confronted with facts defeating your position you continue to defend the indefensible.
So after getting your butt severely kicked to the curb many times, you continue to resort to distortions, twisting everyone’s words and in some cases; out right lying about your actions in an attempt to defend your pitifully weak bias.
Even so, I tried to reach out over a year after you told your usual fibs and help you see the error of your non-question, but you again went back to your old ways of unfairly attacking fellow 2A groups.
Many people have answered your stupid questions and countered your stands innumerous times… you just refuse to see it. Point is, if you can’t have an honest debate fighting a common enemy, then do everyone else a favor… stay on the sidelines and argue with yourself, don’t try to distort the focus of this fight.
Every 2A group, no matter what you may think of them should be WELCOMED to the struggle we are facing, many former NRA members, myself included, who definitely have no love for the NRA leadership have been going back into the group because the stakes are so high, don’t let your petty bias cloud the big picture.
AOV sends with warmest regards.
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Notice the case is not “NRA v. Chicago” but “Benson v. Chicago”. Just like the NRA was AWOL on Heller and McDonald.
Kind of makes you wonder why it takes private citizens and private funding to bring these most important cases.
Where is all that money the NRA getting from members going if it is not paying for these lawsuits?
Heh.....I’ll start giving money to the NRA regularly when we get 922 (o) overturned.
You do realize that the bill must pass in the Senate too..right? NRA supporting Reid, is a way to get the bill done.
Sounds like a theory, but it doesn't really fit the facts. Nice try linking the two separate issues into one, though.
“...Notice the case is not “NRA v. Chicago” but “Benson v. Chicago”.
Just like the NRA was AWOL on Heller and McDonald...”
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The “NRA” does not have “standing”, but a “citizen” does.
“The government should buy everyone guns.
Actually, I could get behind that! It seems to work well for Switzerland.
Seriously, are you that stupid? Brain dead?
Robert Levy started the Parker case which the NRA opposed since it was before Alito and Roberts. We would have lost.
The case which Robert Levy started became Heller and the useless goa was the only group to ask for the narrow view.
The SAF and the NRA joined together for McDonald.
The NRA started Benson.
The goa is AWOL as usual.
Now leave the computer to your parents. The adults have work to do.
You must be jumping in my crap in error.
My post was a chastisement to #25.
Yeah, and the NRA did not offer to fund the lawsuits and in the Heller case it actually tried to scuttle the case. In the McDonald case, the NRA hired the lawyer who argued in favor of Heller to jam up the case.
Face it the NRA succeeds at fund raising and little else when it comes to 2nd Amendment issues, except possibly for supporting Democrat candidates that select SCOTUS judges.
Sucks to be on the losing side of an argument, doesn't it?... but you are probably used to that by now. As soon as someone starts name calling, their argument is toast and they have nothing left to give.
As usual I will let your own words speak for you...
To FR members new and old, it’s ‘ole 2.5, the GOA hating NRA member…
Here is a thread where you spewed your typical, and not very enlightened rant, without listening to a word someone else says… Typical 2.5 whining rant about the GOA.
and here you are in another thread and using your typical whining rant with me… 2.5 gets the real facts and then gets caught in a couple of, well let’s say... factual distortions.
And yet again, after being confronted with facts defeating your position you continue to defend the indefensible.
So after getting your butt severely kicked to the curb many times, you continue to resort to distortions, twisting everyone’s words and in some cases; out right lying about your actions in an attempt to defend your pitifully weak bias.
Even so, I tried to reach out over a year after you told your usual fibs and help you see the error of your non-question, but you again went back to your old ways of unfairly attacking fellow 2A groups.
Many people have answered your stupid questions and countered your stands innumerous times… you just refuse to see it. Point is, if you can’t have an honest debate fighting a common enemy, then do everyone else a favor… stay on the sidelines and argue with yourself, don’t try to distort the focus of this fight.
Every 2A group, no matter what you may think of them should be WELCOMED to the struggle we are facing, many former NRA members, myself included, who definitely have no love for the NRA leadership have been going back into the group because the stakes are so high, don’t let your petty bias cloud the big picture.
AOV sends with warmest regards.
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