esqappellate
President, MSI
- Feb 12, 2012
- 7,408
And this Supplemental Amicus Brief filed by the CRPA FOUNDATION and others is very nicely done and an excellent source of real facts.
“automatic firing of all the ammunition in a thirty-round magazine takes two
seconds, whereas a semiautomatic rifle can empty the same magazine in about five
seconds.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels
Reading this makes my head hurt trying to follow their argument. What a contrast to Caetano.
Instead, like all firearms that are not fully automatic—whether
semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic pistols, revolvers, semi-automatic shotguns,
pump action shotguns, bolt-action rifles, slide action rifles, or lever action rifles—
the operator pulls the trigger once, and the gun goes bang once.
Ashton said there are individuals on Twitter with a surprisingly large number of followers who brand themselves as experts in something in order to sell self-published books or their own consultancy services.
The mysterious Horse Flying Kevin Ashton seems like a likely pick as an expert for the antis.
He is British and has no determinable expertise in guns, mass murder or physics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton
However in two hours he did create a social media guru out of thin air and $50.00 i.e. Santiago Swallow. So he has a lot of experience in hoodwinking people.:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/19/meet-...cial-media-star-youve-never-heard-of-3640048/
The following quote from the article may give insight on where the antis find their experts:
It is interesting the Brady bunch really liked whatever was supposedly said in "The Physics of Mass Killing" because they referred to it in multiple briefs and motions in at least three different cases. (Goggle search on "The Physics of Mass Killing" in quotes)
Kolbe-v-OMalley
Shew-v.-Malloy
NYSRPA-v.-Cuomo
But it looks like no one liked it enough to copy the document because all the references I can find all lead back to the same non existent web page.
Solidly crafted, indeed... And they even managed to work in this subtle little ditty (emphasis mine)...
Another distaff reference a few sentences later, as well.
And...the subtle introduction of the feminine pronoun.
Mr. H was using a horse racing term for the fairer sex.
Mr. H was using a horse racing term for the fairer sex.
Usage note:
A distaff is the stick onto which wool or flax is wound in spinning. Since spinning was traditionally done by females, distaff took on figurative meanings relating to women or women’s work. In the sense of “female,” the noun distaff is archaic, but the adjective is in current use: distaff chores, a distaff point of view; the distaff side of the family.
That should be irrelevant under strict scrutiny - basically, find other means with which to work to insure public safety, but do it without trying to limit an enumerated right. It's said right there in Heller, which is in turn quoted by the NRA's brief in Kolbe:Frosh et al will state the law hasn't been in effect long enough for meaningful data to be collected
At least Daniel Webster will spin it that way.
Yet the majority in Heller did not even discuss the District’s interest in preventing violent crime, except to note that while “[t]he Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating that problem, . . . the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.” Heller, 554 U.S. at 636.
Frosh et al will state the law hasn't been in effect long enough for meaningful data to be collected
At least Daniel Webster will spin it that way.