I was interviewed today on Washington Post Radio, along with Dennis Henigan from the Brady Center, about the Supreme Court case. I’m hoping to have a seat to see the oral argument next Tuesday.
Interview with Washington Post Radio on the Supreme Court Gun-Ban Challenge
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That was really good. A very civil conversation with your side stated with clarity and passion. Well done!
I wish our country had provision of ‘Right to Self-Defense’
Your opponent’s remarks about how the citizens of DC are happy with the gun ban, and no candidate ever runs on a platform of overturning the law reminded me of a quote from Justice Robert Jackson:
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
Well done, Tom!
Thank you! It was fun. I could have said so much more (I had, for example, scads of statistics to refute the claims that the gun law has lowered violent crime).
I watched the Reporter’s Roundtable discussion on Cato’s site. The point you made at the end about the lawyer, if he were to be consistent, would defend a city policy of censorship- that was great. Shame the program could not have continued another few minutes to see you elaborate on that point!
Also wish you could have been given a longer forum to discuss the point regarding criminals and their lack of respect for the law. When you mentioned that the mayor was shocked to learn that criminals were not law-abiding citizens- brilliant. The lawyer readily admitted to the fact that this law would not be 100% effective. I wish you would have asked him what group made up that percentage that makes up that gap.
In any event, I hope the Constitution prevails. Good luck!
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
— Robert Heinlein
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