I mean if a common sense law like that violates the state constitution, it does seems like the problem is in the constitution or how it's interpreted, not the law…
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Fixed the headline - Judge rules that Americans need more mass shootings before anything changes.
Fixed the headline - Judge rules that Americans need more mass shootings ~~before anything changes.~~
FTFY
"Man uses a fork to rake leaves, rails against tree for the fork not working"
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We can’t have reduced gun crimes in America. It would send the wrong message to the rest of the world that we’re reasonable and give a shit about our own people.
Oh the horror!
Right?
This will be overturned. This judge is known for making politically motivated decisions. There is a reason this was filed specifically in Harney County where this yahoo presides.
Guaranteed this is not the last time this will be in the news.
I hope so, will keep an eye on it.
Is there a !remindme in 2 years function in Lemmy?
I believe people somehow did it through federation with Mastodon.
Don't remember in details. I'm not aware for Lemmy having such bots, but ActivityPub in general should have some.
Democracy is when the majority of people vote for a law but because rich people from 100+ years ago say otherwise it doesn't get enacted.
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States rights people really confused prolly.
C'mon, this is easy... all you need is a large gathering of BLM people or antifa packing ARs and boom - this law will mysteriously pass before the media frenzy has had a chance to get it's shoes on.
Nah, the result of that would be the national guard getting called and an oppressive use of force to put everyone back in their places. The media would either briefly display it in the news ticker mentioning that our national heros quelled a local terrorist attack or just say nothing about it.
the result of that would be the national guard
Do you know why they never called the national guard on the Black Panthers? Or why the pig never dared to confront them directly?
This is nothing more then a marketing campaign by the gun lobby to sell bullshit hero fantasies to left wing people too.
"The pig" killed 34 members of the Black Panther Party, including outright assassinations.
When the full details of the FBI involvment was revealed, the director of the agency issued a public apology for "wrongful use of power" and exactly 0 members of the pro-gun community used their guns to overthrow a government running projects like COINTELPRO.
The BPP being armed didn't just fail to deliver on everything you're promising, it provided all the justification the state needed to abuse and murder them -- an excuse police still use to this day.
marketing campaign by the gun lobby to sell bullshit
The left doesn't need "marketing" to appreciate the value of modern-day weaponry - all we need for that is a proper understanding of the right and their liberal allies.
"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" - the big kahuna himself, Karl Marx.
I'm no Marxist myself, but damn - when the guy was right he was really right.
“The pig”
It's pig. Not "pig".
including outright assassinations.
I wonder why they couldn't just lynch Fred Hampton on the sidewalk like they did with George Floyd - it's a complete mystery to me.
it provided all the justification the state needed to abuse and murder them
Riiiight... because the fascists have always required an excuse to perpetrate mass-murder on people they consider "other," correct?
Lmao you'd lose any war you fought.
The idea that you can own a gun and be safe from state violence has never once paid off for anyone who buys into it.
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We already have heavily armed BLM and Antifa folks. Oregon contains multitudes.
The law in question was doomed to fail. I'm halfway sure it was put on the ballot just to encourage pro gun people to vote.
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People from around the developed world looking at America...shaking my head...
Trust me, Americans who understand what's going on are shaking their heads too. And furiously voting and getting ready to vote. But are there enough of them?
Like many other systemic problems, our voting isn't working. Case in point, your article. As for how we can actually effect meaningful change? No idea. It's frustrating.
That's why you have to keep voting.
Change doesn't come as a result of one victory, it's a ungratifying grinding process that takes being able to consistently build on previous achievements.
That's literally how the right gets their way so often, one step or a hundred, doesn't matter as long as the man on the ticket is even tangentially going in the direction they want.
This is what is so, so frustrating. I've watched this cycle my entire life, and though I wouldn't really be politically aware until about 99-2000 as Clinton left office, it's the same cycle repeated and has been since at least Reagan. Republicans come in, cut taxes for the rich, start wars, and slowly chip away at our basic liberties. Democrats come in, start in the middle of a war, an economic recession, now a pandemic, etc, and have to clean it up. And then everyone gets pissed off because the dems can't clean it up fast enough and like it's fucking groundhog day, the country forgets and decides what's going to fix it is changing back to the side the caused the fucking problem.
The most mouth breather dumb shit take I hear especially on Lemmy is that "dems just don't inspire enough" so people are going to sit it out or vote third party (which means, help Republicans win.) Well, I guess the absolute dumbest take is voting Republican. Doing the boring ass work and making tiny in roads is not inspiring, but it's how you get to watershed moments. Republicans know this, they've been working for 50 years to overturn Roe, to further the wealth divide, to lock down your civil liberties.
You're not wrong. At that point, all we can do is protest and strike.
Uh, they are wrong. Think of how much absolute bullshit we would have avoided if turnout in 2016 wasn't so low for Hilary, and people didn't waste their vote on a deliberate spoiler candidate with Jill Stein. You can probably put some numbers on it - how many would not be dead if a rational leader had been overseeing the pandemic? Republicans wouldn't have the Supreme Court, Roe wouldn't have been over turned, we wouldn't have the SC legislating from the bench in regards to EPA/climate change, we could have actual gun legislation, and so much more. The list goes on and on.
Even in 2016, before we knew the depths of how far Trump would sink, we knew he was on tape advising how to commit sexual assault, had been accused of sexual assault by over 20 women, we knew he was racist and demonstrably so, we knew he was a conman that hadn't ever really accomplished anything (unless a record for companies bankruptcies is something?)
But hey, Hilary wasn't "inspiring."
There is a reason there is so much effort to prevent people from voting in this country. There was a deliberate effort in 2016 to convince you that your vote didn't matter, Hilary had it locked up, etc. There is a deliberate effort in basically every red state to gerrymander so progressives can't get ahead.
So anyway, these comments are doing their work for them. Our government has many problems, but the general thing is that it moves slow. If you want to see positive change, vote, and then have an attention span and keep voting.
Don't worry, all the pro-gun people promised that if the government starts ignoring the will of the people they'll shoot them with their cool guns.
Breaking: one unelected person with an agenda overrules entire state, imposes his personal interpretation of the law
And the 21st amendment to the U.S. constitution violated the 18th amendment U.S. constitution. They should have passed this as a state constitutional amendment. Note that the judge didn't say in violated the U.S. constitution, just the state - and another one said that it didn't violate the 2nd amendment.
For reference, the bit in the Oregon state constitution is as follows:
Section 27. Right to bear arms; military subordinate to civil power. The people shall have the right to bear arms for the defence [sic] of themselves, and the State, but the Military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power[.]
Pretty similar to the US constitution's second amendment. If SCOTUS was consistent, I think they'd rule in parallel to what's been established elsewhere for licensing, purchasing restrictions, etc.
That is much more clear than the 2nd Amendment. That mentions the right to bear arms for self defense. The 2nd Amendment mentions the right to bear arms to defend the state.
So then people who have a history of using them for crime which is very much not self defense ought not apply?
“The court finds that 10-round magazine bans are no panacea to prevent a mass shooter,” he wrote.
“People tend to believe these events are prolific and happening all the time with massive levels of death and injury,” he added. “The court finds this belief, though sensationalized by the media, is not validated by the evidence.”
Yeah, the judge sounded more interested in his own opinions than the law.
So just pass it as a constitutional amendment
If they had left out the magazine restriction then this probably would have been a slam dunk bill.
so change that shitty constitution
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