How a gun-control case can lead to economic liberty. I hope that the DC gun-rights advocates make this argument — it would be harder for the court to ignore if they do.
And it reminds me that much of the “progressive” agenda is rooted in its racism. One of, if not the key, arguments in favor of the minimum wage when it was first passed was that it would protect the jobs of white men against blacks. And the purpose of gun control for much of its history (as Sullum points out) was to keep guns out of their hands, lest they protect themselves from Klansmen carrying out “justice.” And of course, the irony is that now, in DC, blacks are being murdered by other blacks on a daily basis because they are denied the legal right to defend themselves.
It’s “ironic” when a man who refuses to wear shoes “for health reasons” steps in dog poo and gets sick. When Libs continue to put their narcissistic concern for personal appearances ahead of the the objectively awful effects their policies cause, we’re way beyond “ironic.” It’s a rage-inducing tragedy.
OH, but isn’t the racism deeper than blacks just being able to protect themselves? It seems more that the progressives DON”T care about what they used to call in L.A. “N on N” crimes. So long as African-Americans JUST kill each other, it’s too bad, but so what. We only see real movement on gun laws when crime spills over on whitey. Most of the time it’s just rhetoric, promises to the anti-gun pleebs and political slogans.
Remember the DC Sniper Case? The left was ready to outlaw slingshots!!
I see the left fighting a holding action so as not to lose ground on where they are now, but they aren’t pounding this daily in the open.
“in DC, blacks are being murdered by other blacks on a daily basis because they are denied the legal right to defend themselves”
With the “progressive” left, that’s a feature, not a bug. But they’ll deny it to their last lying breath.