Aknazer
Regular Member
That is the function of the federal courts. If a State violates the agreement (the Constitution), then the courts should strike down any State actions that are in violation. This is not the purview of the Congress. Laws are a stupid way to ensure rights. When we make the lawmakers responsible for ensuring our rights, they will ensure what they think ought to be rights, and turn a blind eye towards State actions that limit activities that they think ought not be rights. It's the whole fox-guarding-the-hen-house thing.
Then we pull off another "When in the course of human events..." Of course, that means it had better be "We, virtually all of the People" severing the ties. There are a few extremists who forgot their tinfoil and think that we are at that point in the course of human events, but we clearly are not. Our nation is not perfect, but it is currently the most perfect governmental set-up in the world today, and (at one point in our history) was the most perfect ever in the history of the world.
We need to work toward full realization of the remarkable ideal that the Founders and Framers envisioned. This law is a small step in the wrong direction, away from Federalism, which is one of those remarkable ideals.
I didn't forget any tinfoil as I don't wear a tinfoil hat. I also don't think we're at the point of succession. But enough people in certain places don't feel that they have to follow the Constitution. But you come across as hoping that places such as New York will magically have a change of heart and that a majority will suddenly push for something they have been against nearly their whole life. That would be akin to expecting those who were for segregation to magically change their mind in great enough numbers that anything would have happened to change the situation in a reasonable timeframe.
Sometimes it is required for someone else to step in. And talking about the federal courts is still hoping for the feds to intervene. Only one is more likely to get somewhere with laws than they are in hoping for the courts to clarify the laws and in regards to the laws they can also help prevent future lawsuits.
Do I think a permit should be required for oc or cc? No, but I also don't think we will get to that point nationally any time soon unless someone can get the courts to step in. But I would rather work towards improvements without trying to rely on the courts. Of course we disagree on this being any type of improvement.