This ruling makes it harder for the gun prohibitionists to get around these important Supreme Court victories. This is one more Second Amendment Foundation victory in an unprecedented string of court victories.  But we still must make sure that President Obama or a Hillary Clinton do not stack our courts with anti-rights judges.

Well, frankly sometimes I wonder if it's worthwhile posting political stuff here at all.  Maybe it's my style or something, or the fact that I'm a mainlander, but I certainly expected some response to that decision.

Maybe that case is not as big a deal as I think,...
Terry, 230RN

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Well, frankly sometimes I wonder if it's worthwhile posting political stuff here at all.  Maybe it's my style or something, or the fact that I'm a mainlander, but I certainly expected some response to that decision.

Maybe that case is not as big a deal as I think, but other positive 2A legal stuff seems to be mostly ignored too... whether I post it or not.  This, with the possible exception of the Baker case, where the site owner himself kept the discussion alive and where many of you know him personally.

I've noticed this for most of the 7 years I've been on this board.  It's almost as if the fact that the historically relatively easy living of tropical and subtropical islands, with food readily available from both land and sea, and with mostly mild weather, has resulted in a cultural "shaka," a willingness to let things go, an "it's all good" attitude.

It's almost as if the easy living for centuries has dulled down that sense of independence and the "don't tread on me" fire in the belly attitude necessary to win back some of the freedoms that "Authority" has taken away... at least for most of the Hawaiian population.  Maybe it's a result of the plantation culture?  Or the Royalty structure of days past?  Whatever.

I don't know.  I don't think I'm being a crybaby here, and I don't care if I have 100 posts or 10,000 posts or 10 likes or 100 likes, but it just seems to me that Hawaiians don't care that much about how the laws have subjugated them... or keeps them subjugated.

This is not to say that I'm going to pull a drama queen bit and withdraw from the site, but I'm just commenting on the excessively (to me) easygoing attitude of the general Hawaiian population.  Maybe that's just good for tourism, though, and I'm misinterpreting the situation altogether.

Terry, 230RN

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In a reply to the court order barring enforcement, the Commonwealth Senate passed a strict 57-page gun control proposal last week to which the House added a $1,000 per pistol excise tax, which the Senate approved unanimously on April 7, sending the bill to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres for expected signature.

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Shades of Chicago !  I wonder what other parallels to Chicago's attempts to inhibit gun ownership after the SCOTUS decisions could be made here.*   They (Chicago) tried to make laws deliberately intended to inhibit gun ownership.despite the Court's decisions.  Oh, little things like an incredibly unreasonable "training" law, excessive fees, etc...

And, like Chicago, they will go back to court to address the multiple impermissible infringements, costing the citizens there tons of money in an attempt to delay the inevitable...

I think it would be fun to make a McCulloch v. Maryland argument against the imposition of an extraordinary tax that burdens a right under the Constitution.

I've always wondered if Justice Marshall's famous axioms applied to more than just a state tax imposed on a constitutional right of the federal government, and whether it also applied to state taxes that are imposed to severely limit the constitutional rights of a citizen.

I feel like these kind of questions keep professors of Constitutional law up at night.

The Marianas legislature just needs to change the terminology, if the courts don't do it for them: "It's not a tax, it's a fee." (See: Obamacare via Justice Roberts).

if your parenthetical notation was in reference to NFIB v. Sebelius, then i'm pretty sure you're misreading or incorrectly referencing that decision.  it's okay though.  i don't really feel like arguing with you about something that is kind of off-topic.