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Brady Campaign on the Chicago cases

Posted by David Hardy · 5 October 2009 03:09 PM

Their latest, at the Huffington Post. Someone quipped that after Heller, they were going thru the seven stages of grief, starting with denial, then anger, etc.. Well, they seem to have reached the last stage, resignation. Before and right after Heller, they were indignant that anyone would even seriously consider an individual rights claim. Now it's more like when they lose, it really won't hurt so bad as it might have:

"Although the Chicago case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board. "

· Chicago gun case

4 Comments | Leave a comment

RKV | October 5, 2009 3:41 PM | Reply

"A ruling [that] is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation" isn't worth a damn, anyway. The whole Constitution, all the time. Damn it.

Flighterdoc | October 5, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply

Whistling past the graveyard?

WP Zeller | October 6, 2009 8:36 AM | Reply

No one here in Illinois thinks the Chicago gun ban is in mortal and immediate danger, no matter what the Supremes do.
The legislative process is so convoluted and so full of quicksand and mirrors that immediate relief is nearly unthinkable.
After all, there's law and then there's laws.
That said, we do have some hope of a slow tilt in favor of rights being restored. Over the course of years, it may well happen.
Illinois just had a relatively good year in the state Legislature, what with every anti-gun law having been beaten back, and several by stronger majorities than in previous years.
But that's a loooong way from Vermont-style carry.
Chicago might be the spiritual home of the American anti-gun movement nowadays, with the executives and legislative bodies being so well in hand by anti-gun forces and the presence of the money-dispensing Joyce Foundation and the like.
The slog here will be long, but at least it's not getting worse, such as in, say, California.

Alec Dawson | October 6, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply

How binding is the the dicta in Heller? It seems to me a lot of it could be very harmful and could pave the way for CA style regulation throughtout the US.

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