That dastardly NRA, trying to take things to the local level when all truly educated types know that the Federal Gubmit is the only place where rules should be made.
Make our day, MSM.
Freedom scares the hell out of totalitarian statists. Slate should change their name to State.
Hoplophobes call the NRA a “special interest group.”
That’s not an adjective liberals attach to Planned Parenthood or public employee unions.
Libs didn’t have any problems with “all politics are local” when Tip O’Neill said it.
I am also a proponent of gun violence. When a thug decides that he can physically overpower my daughters, my wife, my mother, or myself and my brothers as we get older, I am 100% in favor of gun violence. Non-gun violence by a large, well-prepared criminal should be met with gun violence from the intended victim. God made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.
How about the diabolical new plans by BIG anti-Second Amendment groups to trample the Bill of Rights? Any smart Alec BS on that?
Freedom is diabolical to fascists.
How dare they try to make the cities and states follow their own laws!
The laws and towns they are targeting,esp. in Pennsylvania are ILLEGAL in the first place.
AH yes, that “diabolical” Bill of Rights.
In the midst of all the buzzwords, Slate barely touches upon the central issue.
The NRA went into a state (PA) with a gun preemption law, and is forcing towns and municipalities to (gasp!) follow the law.
In my home, Washington state, this is accomplished by ordinary citizens who take it upon themselves to become freedom activists. OpenCarry.com has a lot of posts involving cities and counties getting called on illegal anti-gun postings in parks and public places. The cities always cave, because big-bucks Seattle got taken to the woodshed by WSC, in that the preemption law really means what it says.
How hard is this for Slate to understand? These municipalities are violating a 40 year old state law that specifically says that only the state can regulate firearms. They are in open defiance. Since the court won’t rule on this until someone actually goes to court and is convicted, this is the only remedy the state has. In the meantime, these municipalities are free to harrass the good citizens and put them through the ringer financially. All so citizens can simply exercise their god given right. I wonder how Slate would feel if these local municipalities started regulating first amendment or fourth amendment rights?