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 a firearm is NOT sufficient.
Because acceptance of the federal firearms background check would preclude NYC from charging a fee to do its own, and thus impede its ability to capitalize on Justice Scalia’s pronouncement that nothing in Heller should be read as to preclude any existing revenue raising measures from remaining in full force and effect.
Who are the unelected City and NYPD bureaucrats who routinely deny New Yorkers their rights?
Why, that would be your friendly neighborhood police brass. The same ones who turn on the sirens on their police cruisers so that they can make it to Dunkin Donuts at the precise time when the fresh donuts come out of the back room.
My wife caught a felony when she was picking up a package with half a key for me from my buddy, but I only have a misdemeanor when I plead down my assault for beating up this [expletive deleted] who I should have killed when he cut me off. Can I still keep my gun?
Absolutely, but you will have to get rid of your wife. She’s a felon.
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Groundings enjoyed the Bard but your show is not very comical and hopefully there won’t be a second act
Exit Ghost
I don’t think it was meant to be comical, but since you’re too busy showing your vast knowledge of “the bard,” you probably didn’t get that part.
Ah, but it was the author of the article that brought up groundlings implying that the poor and uneducated needed his assistance to understand the Supreme Court decision and then poked fun at the unposted but “anticipated” questions he received. The comedy here is in the author and not in the content and so the groudlings are laughing at him and not with him.
The irony here is that each of the questions (see the indented portions) is an actual question asked with regard to the Heller decision, each of them quite fair given the holding, but unanswered or unanswerable under the rationale (or lack there).
The comedy is that the Supreme Court decision, intended to provide answers to the reasonable questions of ordinary people (the groundlings). provides no answers to any of these questions except the final one. In that instance, the answer is absurd.
Most readers understood the purpose of this post. Some require it to be spelled out in greater detail. And if it doesn’t strike your fancy, bear in mind that no one forces you to read it.