[T]he 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has found that machine guns are not protected under the Second Amendment with really a terribly reasoned ruling. But the outcome is the one we want because, as I’ve explained to you before, unequivocally, 100% we 1,000% do not want a machine gun case to go to the United States Supreme Court. Anyone that disagrees with me is 1,000% wrong. If a machine gun case goes to the Supreme Court, we will 1,000% lose, which will create more bad Second Amendment precedent. And it will also delay, as an opportunity cost the decision that AR-15s and semi-automatic rifles are protected arms under the Second Amendment… [Watch]
The fact that his legal read on this is correct should be all the proof we need that the court benches are dominated by traitors.
[Via Jess]
“I’d like to be an optimist, but I don’t think it would work.” — T-shirt
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”― Donald Rumsfeld
So asking how we score a “coup de main” and get our entire cake back in one fell swoop is a waste of energy. Not any more productive than the hordes of Cuban refugees that spent their lives on Miami’s street corners and parks “killing Castro.” Both Castro brothers eventually died of natural causes at very advanced ages.
The question to be asking, and answering, is what is our best alternative given the resources we have, and the realities we face?
One of those realities is that the average American gun owner has never written a letter of any kind, much less one to a newspaper’s editorial board, or to a politician, and likely never will.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all of you God’s creatures in between, is the army we have.
My Air Force vet brother-in-law is fond of saying “A kill is a kill.” We want gun control dead. We may have to be patient while our flock of ducks nibbles it to death. But dead is dead.
Cody Wilson has been kind of quiet lately.
I look at such advice with jaundice, given the equivalent stance of the cowards at the NRA against lawsuits like Parker/Heller, which they actively tried to sabotage because “it was not the right time.” They were dead wrong, and it was the right time. Who else said it was “not the right time?” All the congressional Republicans during Trump’s first two years, when they could have trivially passed national reciprocity and suppressor deregulation, yet inexplicably wouldn’t… because they actually didn’t want to.