Hawaii Gun Carry Case To Supreme Court
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 6 months ago
The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, challenging restrictions on transporting licensed firearms outside the home. Beck and Stamboulieh represent George Young in his complaint against the State of Hawaii for denying him a carry permit.
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“Mr. Young has now been on appeal in the Ninth Circuit since December 24, 2012 (six years, four months and twenty days) and there is still no end in sight. Mr. Young will be seventy years old this year in September.”
I was unaware of this case. That’s a new one on me … if you don’t want to deal with the issue, apparently like the Ninth Circuit, then just ignore it.
“It is apparently just fine for him to be taken from his home country to fight in Vietnam with high powered weaponry but then to forbid him to carry a handgun outside his home for self-defense in Hawaii,” the brief continues. “Mr. Young served his country with honor only to return and be treated as a second-class citizen by Hawaii, and unable to fully exercise his Second Amendment rights.”
I always find this argument a bit off-putting. It assumes the consequent. Of course the Ninth Circuit, and most other progressives, will think it’s okay to send him off to fight the country’s wars only to come home and be unarmed. That’s the idea – the state has a monopoly on violence, even for self defense.
The proper defense would have left that part out and focused on God-given rights and duties, and the constitution as a covenant between men, currently dishonored and abandoned.
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On May 15, 2019 at 10:35 pm, DAN III said:
ALCON
10 years ago this August as the plaintiff in a federal civil trial, I won a unanimous jury verdict against a county government organization for violation of my 1st Amendment rights. Or so I thought. Countygov appealed their loss to the federal judge who heard the case. That same judge threw out the jury verdict ! My appeal to 3rd Circuit only led to them siding with the trial judge 2-1, who “nullified” the jury decision !
After four years of my life and tens upon tens of thousands of borrowed dollars, I fought against the tyranny of government. And won….until “government” rallied to show THIS citizen who serves who !
Since that day I have no love or respect for government at any level. The judiciary in particular, being in competition with all other branches for the title of most corrupt, earns my most sincere hatred.
There is NO such thing as a fair trial in Amerika. The odds are entirely STACKED against the common citizen. For those many folks who believe one can sue against government to obtain “justus”, you have no clue to the pitiful reality of the tyranny of the state.