Sangamon
County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
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Sangamon
County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights Springfield, Illinois |
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 FALLOUT FROM HELLER and more Tom Shafer Speaking at the August 5, 2008 SCRA Meeting September 2008 GunNews Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, the media is totally silent excepting the shrill whining from the fringe far left. I think they are in stunned disbelief. After a monumental decision such as this, irrespective of your side of the argument, you have to reassess your position and I think that's healthy. The gun haters are reassessing Before Heller went to the Supreme Court, some of the more knowledgeable anti-self-defense folks complained about DC taking the case to the Supremes, "What on earth are you taking that nightmare case to the Supreme Court for? We're going to get our butts kicked!" Of course, the pro-self-defense crowd nervously held the polar opposite view: it was a perfect case. They took a terrible case to the Supremes and got it crammed right in their ear, and are now totally glib. So now of course we get to gloat and they get to commiserate. Many of the so-called gun "control" groups have had their whole purpose for being rendered moot, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling that gun ownership for self-defense is both legitimate and legal. How can you have a group called Handgun Control, Inc. when the Supreme Court has said everybody who is a law abiding American has a right to a handgun for self defense? Well, if it were only that easy for them to give up. Which brings us to Heller now. Heller was the security guard who wanted to take his pistol home and started the whole deal where DC said no, they're strictly and totally banned. He sued, and won. So now he has taken his Beretta over to the registration office at city hall and they said, "Don't come back with that, it's an assault weapon. We'll arrest you." They rejected his registration, contrary to the Heller decision which specifically said they must do. Now they're trying to write new rules, because the Supremes have said you must allow handgun registration but the DC city council is trying to limit "acceptance" of the decision to only revolvers and single shot firearms. So, you see how they're going to try to slice this loss as narrowly as possible. They're insane is what they are. They will simply refuse to acknowlege defeat. So Heller has filed a second suit and it will go to the District Court. They have their own DC Appeals Court and I believe and it'll go right to there and they'll reject the DC city council's new rules. And DC will fight that whole deal out. It's just a foot dragging process by the DC's lawyers, all paid for by taxpayers, ordered by gun-hating politicians who have little to lose by fighting tooth and nail against the law of the land. FOID Card: Ten bucks for ten years If you apply now for your renewed FOID you'll get a card for ten-years. Ten year cards are being issued. So now it's ten-years for ten bucks. The state fair is coming up. We do not have a presence at the state fair this year. You'll remember that Jim and I, Walter Ade and a couple of other diehards manned a tent at the state fair in what was called the "Constitutional Freedom Area". I'd done some reading under the Department of Agriculture under State Fairs and it said they were required because the hippies in the 60's were going throughout the fairgrounds panhandling and the powers-that-be didn't like that, so they set you up a tent called the Constitutional Freedom Area. You can distribute whatever literature you want but you have to remain in that area. So I put in for it, it's a free spot, and we manned a booth and it was excruciatingly difficult work in brutal heat and I put Walter Ade who is a Korean War combat veteran and a really nice pro-gun guy next to the pro-marijuana guy in dreadlocks. They ended up shaking hands, they didn't kill each other, which I thought might happen unfortunately, but they kind of agreed with each other's position. They worked on each other because like I said, nobody else was there - it was kind of a no-man's land as far as the fairgoers went. The tent is still available. I haven't taken advantage of it because like I said, we're have difficulty finding volunteers. It's difficult, it's hot, it's lonely and you're not reaching anybody except for waving at the tram people, it's not really doing any good for the pro-gun cause. So we've tried it, I don't recommend it. From the Capitol Index Return to SCRA Home Page |