by Robert M. Traxler
According to the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association, 29 counties are working to become Second Amendment Sanctuary counties, in which any new restrictive statewide gun rules won’t be enforced. The Supreme Court will review a New York City gun law that limits residents from transporting their guns outside their homes, the first Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, per guntest.com
Several years ago I wrote in the Townbroadcast that cities and states that defied the federal laws on drugs and immigration were opening a “Pandora’s Box.” Defying federal and state laws could come back to bite them in their fourth point of contact (a Paratrooper’s term for your rear end). Scoffing at laws for one group could result in different groups doing the same with laws they do not approve of.
Now more and more municipalities are refusing to follow state and federal law, gun laws and more and more other laws modeled after the left stand on immigration and drugs. So, to my liberal friends, time to face the same tactics you used for so long, time to see your own methods used against you, how does it feel? Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The New York City law on gun control to be heard by the Supreme Court is so restrictive that it is plainly unconstitutional. A licensed gun owner in New York must case the firearm in their home, and secure the ammunition in a separate locked container. No problem with that, but it only allows you to transport the weapon to an approved gun range and no place else; just how would you move to a new location, a new residence? How would you get the weapon repaired?
The Supreme Court has always struck down laws so restrictive that they make law abiding citizens into criminals out of necessity. President Trump’s replacing a moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy with a bit more conservative Justice Kavanaugh, along with hundreds of more moderate federal judges, appointed for lifetime terms at every level will be President Trump’s legacy. Like it or not, he has changed our legal system for decades to come.
As you might guess, I approve of his actions. Some of you will not. President Trump is changing the course of our nation for decades to come in a way pioneered and perfected by the left: using the courts. President Obama stated that he wanted to be a transformational president like President Reagan but never achieved it. President Trump has done in three years what President Obama failed to do in eight.
The Democrats were so focused on impeachment and the past election they left the door to judicial appointments open, wide open. Even the ultra-liberal 9th Circuit is moving closer to a balance of opinion. If the left loses control of the 9th Circuit, it will be a major problem for the socialist movement.
If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg becomes too frail to continue on the court (something I am not hoping for, I have always liked strong women and she is a lot of fight in a small package), the battle for her seat would be the nastiest ever in American judicial politics, and that is saying a lot. I would be surprised if the radical left would not resort to open violence, knowing the originalists would be in control of the traditionally liberal court. Roe v. Wade as we know it would be in danger of being modified; no issue is closer to the heart of the left than Roe, no issue more divisive, none more passionate.
Roe is based on 1960s science, before DNA, Ultrasounds being common, MRIs and other tests were available. Modern science has made Roe as written a very questionable decision. Justice Ginsberg’s health will also be front and center in the 2020 election.
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AB, I have read and reread your offering this week with interest. And I don’t take issue with much of any of it.
The specific New York gun law you cite is a great example of bureaucracy at its dumbest. When legislators don’t take the time to research the consequences of such laws for real people, they have reacted rather than pro-acted. Imagine following that particular law as a good, law-abiding citizen, then finding that you cannot move from your home to a new one without breaking the law by taking your legal weapons with you. It does boggle the mind when any lawmaker doesn’t take the time to look at the bigger picture.
The same is true in partisan action regarding other laws, or in appointing partisan Supreme Court Justices.
Although I do harbor some sympathies toward sanctuary cities (and please note I said SOME sympathies, not full-on support), I’m not sure outright defiance of the rule of law is an optimum approach to issues as complex as immigration. And stacking the Supreme Court in favor of either political party, seems, to me, an equally reckless approach to “curing” bad legislation at the outset.
I’d not heard the phrase “fourth point of contact” as a euphemism for the human tush, but I like it very much.
We (humans as a group) do seem to be preoccupied with protecting that fourth point of contact. And having to protect it from our own follies is the sorriest form of preoccupation. Yet at one time or another each of us does something, says something, or thinks something that comes back to bite us on our posterior.
More than anything, I think, we need to be more thoughtful before we speak or act, whether as individuals or collectively, whether locally or nationally, because every action will have an inevitable opposite reaction, whether we like it or not.
In short, there is a lesson in your piece: that we all ought to approach our decisions with an eye toward how it may affect us, detrimentally, in the future. Today I may think you are getting bit, but tomorrow it may be my sorry fourth point of contact that has teeth marks on it.
Ms. Mandaville,
Lynn,
Well said. Thanks for the comment.
During a “PLF” a parachute landing fall point of contact one is the balls of your feet, two the heals of your feet, three the thigh of the leg, the fourth is the derriere, fifth the shoulder muscle. In theory if you land in that sequence you will not be injured.
I certainly have a view of Trump’s legacy – but it’s not quite the same as what you put forward.
My view of Trump’s legacy is the same as yours. I think his should be saved in a landfill, not a library.
Mr. Basura,
Sir,
152 Federal Judges appointed for life and counting. The Left has forgotten judges as they concentrate on impeachment. Some of President Trump’s appointment’s will still be in office 30 years from now or longer.
Seven appointments to the 9th Circuit Court is changing the left’s best weapon to a more balanced body.
Thanks for the comment.
Don’t give credit for Trump for Neil Gorsuch; that credit, or blame, belongs primarily to Mitch McConnell.
Mr. Basura,
Sir,
Happened on President Trumps watch, history will call Associate Justice Gorsuch a Trump appointee, not a McConnell appointee.
Thanks for the comment.