Ask Mr. Simple Justice, Gun Edition
Simple Justice:
As anticipated, a flurry of questions from the groundlings have followed the media’s reporting of the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller. And I am nothing if not helpful.
Why do citizens of New York City need a PERMIT or PERMISSION to exercise a right now reaffirmed to be guaranteed under the US constitution?
Because Justice Scalia said so.
Does NYC require a permit to exercise the Rights of Free Speech, the Right to Privacy, etc? Does a citizen have to PAY TO [EXERCISE]THOSE RIGHTS?
Duh. Haven’t you ever been to the Gay Pride Parade?
Just as poll taxes were used in the South to deny African-Americans the right to vote, NYC’s blatantly high fees and arbitrary permitting process deny New Yorkers their newly re-affirmed right to own a gun.
This isn’t a question, but I’ll help you out anyway. Comparing poll taxes to gun rights requires a knowledge of American history that few people possess, and reveals you to be an egg-head and thus unqualified to possess a weapon, thus making the permitting process denying you your right anything but arbitrary.
To file a permit to own a firearm for target or hunting use, applicants are required to file a $300 fee. For what? And they then force you to purchase the gun from a selected list of stores.
Running the United States is not an inexpensive proposition. Do you have any idea what a cruise missle costs? If you aren’t willing to do your part, then you have no business demanding constitutional rights. As for the approved gun stores, maybe you would like to have just anybody selling guns in New York, comrade?
Why isn’t the Federal firearms background check sufficient in applying for this permit?
NYC has decided that the Federal background check performed and accepted across the United States when purchasing…