“These fifty laws identified by the Attorney General constitute a long, embarrassing, disgusting, insidious, reprehensible list of examples of government tyranny towards our own people,” Benitez wrote — and such “repugnant historical examples of prejudice and bigotry will not be used to justify the State’s current infringement on the constitutional rights of citizens.” [More]
Yet that’s exactly what Rob Bonta and all Democrats– not just the California ones — are calling for, no matter how much they try to distance themselves with specious, self-serving excuses.
Using their “logic,” they can also use the whip as long as they do it to all of us.
What do we have a Second Amendment for, again…?
[Via Jess]
The State provided a spreadsheet of laws they thought analogous. Of the 53 laws from the allowed time period (1791-1888, as set by Judge Benitez), 50 were race codes designed to disarm minorities, 2 were prohibitions on minors, and one governed being armed without cause or while drunk. None of them are relevant or analogous to a prohibition on the general public.
No, of course the judge is not going to accept them! And that’s the BEST they could come up with!