Sure, lets see if it passes before we count our bullets.
Sure I do. But I also don’t live in a black and white world. By the nature of your question, I take it you don’t believe there was anyone who ever claimed self defense when it wasn’t?
Lawyers who won Supreme Court case split with law firm over gun clients:
A question: one site I read claims that the decision eliminates “intermediate scrutiny” of gun cases, and sets that future gun cases be considered under “strict scrutiny”. Is this so? If so it sets an enormous precedent far beyond the subject of carry permits.
It has passed, it is waiting for Biden’s signature.
Bipartisan gun control law sent for Biden’s signature after House vote
Fourteen Republicans vote with majority for first major gun reform legislation in nearly 30 years
Also see my previous cite.
Nice.
Admittedly, I didn’t actually click on that cite, and only saw the part that said that it was passed by the lower house.
So, what are the chances that it gets upheld by this SCOTUS?
I was thinking safe against violent death, whether suicide or homicide.
If you just look at homicide, as in the RAND study, you get states with high suicide and below-average homicide (Wyoming and Montana) counted as safe, while may-issue states below average for both homicide and suicide (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and, most years, California) don’t get full credit.
100%. Nothing scary in there, it was bipartisan.
No one wants to take me up on this? To give my answers, only 2& 3. However, in many CA counties the answer is 4&5. Does anyone think that last is okay?
Right. The zero I quoted seems to hae been on the procedural to advance to final vote (this deal with voting up to four times for the same thing is losing its quaintness). The GOP side took advantage that there is no filibuster in the House to posture.
Are you debating yourself?
Re 4, this is bribery. Do you have a list of the many counties, and of the people in prison for that bribery?
Criminals often get away with crimes, but the way we would know that this is happening would I think be the convictions.
This is how I’ve spent a good chunk of the past couple years.
Six years ago when they hired him, and when he said his retaining of his gun clients was a condition of his joining the firm, it made good business sense for the firm.
Today with this reversal, the firm is saying that it makes good business sense for them to let him and his clients go.
Sadly campaign contributions are generally not considered bribes.
So if your contribution was made on a specific deal that you get a CCW, it could be. But if no strings attached, other than a general sense the official may bestow a favor, it is not.
And that an official may just generally favor a contributor, a political ally, a professional colleague or just someone they like, may be considered morally wrong or even be penalized as an ethics violation or misuse of office, depending on how egregiously done, generally it is not “bribery” unless it’s specific exchange of consideration for value.
If we expect officials almost as a given to show such favoritism, that is a much broader, deeper issue than what we have at hand.
I wonder if she’s been to any cemeteries recently–most of the people there are already dead.
I presume the rationale is anywhere gatherings of (live) people take place.
It’s naked pandering for the zombie vote.
And the ones who aren’t are getting shot.
Seriously, dude, that was a bit tasteless. Had you just forgotten about the recent Wisconsin (and Kentucky) funeral shootings when you wrote that?
Not to speak for bootb, but this is the first I’d heard of them. Did they get much national coverage? A shooting that only leaves one or two people dead doesn’t sound like the sort of story that would get a lot of attention outside the immediate geographic area where it happened.
Not in the US where such shootings are extremely common, at least.
But these days I just take it for granted that any environment or locality that’s mentioned in proposed gun-control legislation is an environment or locality where multiple instances of gun violence have recently occurred. Haven’t been wrong so far.
And I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that anybody who made a joke about it being unnecessary to worry about gun violence in a particular environment or locality would have checked for relevant recent shootings there.