[T]he proximate-cause issue, in limbo will result in continuing legal uncertainty and ongoing attacks on the industry facilitated by courts that are allowing the most extreme theories of proximate cause in which remoteness is disregarded. [More]
The antis and their robed agents on the bench are counting on it.
Me, I’m still wondering which “State or Federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing of the product” is legitimately Constitutional.
[Via Michael G]
The court’s (il)legal twisting and turnings remind me of an explanation of the reasons why fire trucks are red that I saw on a “Three Stooges” trading card back in elementary school.
“Three times four is twelve. There are twelve inches on a ruler, Queen Elizabeth was a ruler. Queen Elizabeth was also a ship. Ships sail the seas. The seas have fishes. The fishes have fins. The Finns fought the Russians. The Russians are red. And that’s why fire trucks are red, because they’re always rushin’ all over.”
Actually, didn’t we turn all of the proximate causes stuff over to Kamala Harris? Maybe she could draw us a Venn diagram.
The real bottom line is that some courts, some politicians, and some governments don’t honor the words of the Second Amendment because they don’t like it, don’t agree with what it says, wish it had never been written, and will ignore it if allowed to do so. And that, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all of you God’s creatures in between is, in the words Jeremiah Johnson told his squaw “all you will need to know.”