[quote]NickViar wrote:
-Those that are part of the federal government can do what they want. [/quote]
Hardly. People in government and their cronies in the press don’t get charged the same way us plebs would, but lets not go full on hyperbole here.
Because the court case against DOMA was really fucking simple. My 3 year could have argued that shit. Clinton’s DOMA was just waiting to get smoked. The NFA is a lot more complicated and easier for the state to defend in court. “General Welfare” and all that.
There is two reasons for NFA (gun control). 1) tyrants & 2) buying votes from those who can’t think their way out of a paper bag, feelers. There are very few #1’s and many, many #2’s.
I’m not sure very many courts would agree with this. And seeing as the courts aren’t going to be able to be uninvolved in divorce (therefore marriage) anytime soon, I’m pretty sure you’d lose this challenge all day long.
Just because you’d lose the challenge doesn’t change the form of government ffs. It means, at least in your opinion, the law is unjust/wrong and you and you alone, have a duty to change that.
The argument that the tax stamp (particularly today) isn’t a significant infringement is one, that unfortunately, is going to hold water, for a long fucking time man. It’s a $200 excise tax and a waiting period essentially. You aren’t getting anything repealed because you don’t want to pay a tax lol.
Congress letting the Hughes amendment and Reagan signing it, on the other hand, is pretty egregious. The further we get out from 1986, as long as SCOTUS doesn’t flip, the closer that gets to an arguable infringement.
Quite the opposite. There is plenty of both. You just disagree they are just. (And I agree with you on some points.)
Just because you don’t agree with something, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
Hyperbolic nonsense.
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-Based on the National Firearms Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, etc. [/quote]
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-Well, no. If all violations of the Constitution were overturned tomorrow, I would chalk the “mistakes” up to people making mistakes. We’re not talking about mistakes-we’re talking about knowingly violating the law[/quote]
The same country that took about 100 years and 600k dead boys to end slavery, STILL took another 100 years before Democrats finally agreed that black people were in fact people (at least in political speeches, not in real life).
What the fuck about that makes you think the same government won’t make the mistakes you listed above? Seriously?
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The federal government collects trillions of dollars in tax income annually. About half of the United States’s voters receive money from the United States government. How do you combat that?[/quote]
The same way you eat an elephant. One bite at a time.
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(FTR, I don’t vote, because of my belief that those receiving tax money should not have a say. My occupation, although seen as a legitimate function of government by about 99% of people, is still tax-funded. I don’t believe that even those employed in the military, police/sheriff’s departments, or court system should vote)[/quote]
Fair enough, I think that is silly, but fair enough.