How?
For all the whining about unconstitutional laws, and armchair warriors making declarations about prying and cold fingers, methinks there is a profound lack of working the system as designed: lawsuits.
We should be flooding the courts with lawsuits about:
- Right to carry for defense of self
- Bans on new high-cap magazines
- Virtual suspention of rights in major cities
- Carry across state lines (a la universal validity of driving licenses)
- Right to class 3 guns as standard militia arms
- Manufacture bans based on cosmetics
- Illegal retention of NICS records
- Excessive delays for permission
- Excessive fees
- Confusing and absurd restrictions on where one may carry
- <Your favorite peeve here>
So why don't we see such lawsuits? Methinks: the unknown. Most of us have no idea how to file lawsuits, how much they cost, how much time they take...and have no idea how to find out. We're cowed by the supposed high cost of litigation...when the system is supposed to be accessable and fair to all. We wait for the NRA to make singular narrow all-or-nothing lawsuits, when we could be flooding the courts by questioning all aspects of the infringements upon our rights.
So...what the heck to do? Really, I'm clueless: how do I file a lawsuit? How can I do it without hiring a lawyer? Are there any lawyers willing to post how-to instructions? Anyone here filed lawsuits and willing to tell the story? How long will it all take?
Our rights are too important to leave to criminals seeking technicalities, and to big organizations with slow-moving strategies. I've waited years to see a grand showdown, and about all that's happened is that Brady Law enforcement was declared optional instead of mandatory, and the best current right-to-own case rests on a wife-beater looking for a technicality.
It's time to do something. How does a responsible, law-abiding little guy say "that law is invalid, I don't want to break it just to 'test' it, and I just want to exercise my right in a reasonable manner"?
For all the whining about unconstitutional laws, and armchair warriors making declarations about prying and cold fingers, methinks there is a profound lack of working the system as designed: lawsuits.
We should be flooding the courts with lawsuits about:
- Right to carry for defense of self
- Bans on new high-cap magazines
- Virtual suspention of rights in major cities
- Carry across state lines (a la universal validity of driving licenses)
- Right to class 3 guns as standard militia arms
- Manufacture bans based on cosmetics
- Illegal retention of NICS records
- Excessive delays for permission
- Excessive fees
- Confusing and absurd restrictions on where one may carry
- <Your favorite peeve here>
So why don't we see such lawsuits? Methinks: the unknown. Most of us have no idea how to file lawsuits, how much they cost, how much time they take...and have no idea how to find out. We're cowed by the supposed high cost of litigation...when the system is supposed to be accessable and fair to all. We wait for the NRA to make singular narrow all-or-nothing lawsuits, when we could be flooding the courts by questioning all aspects of the infringements upon our rights.
So...what the heck to do? Really, I'm clueless: how do I file a lawsuit? How can I do it without hiring a lawyer? Are there any lawyers willing to post how-to instructions? Anyone here filed lawsuits and willing to tell the story? How long will it all take?
Our rights are too important to leave to criminals seeking technicalities, and to big organizations with slow-moving strategies. I've waited years to see a grand showdown, and about all that's happened is that Brady Law enforcement was declared optional instead of mandatory, and the best current right-to-own case rests on a wife-beater looking for a technicality.
It's time to do something. How does a responsible, law-abiding little guy say "that law is invalid, I don't want to break it just to 'test' it, and I just want to exercise my right in a reasonable manner"?