Blue states seem to have difficulty understanding what the limits are for their state governments. They tend to think that their government is allowed to do whatever they want in that state, running roughshod over the people living there.
Fortunately, though, there are courts that recognize that there are legal limitations on the lust for power that blue state governments would rather was unbridled.
Because that is what blue state governments really want: unchecked and unimpeded power to control every aspect of the lives of those living in those states (and they wonder why people who can afford to move out of those states do).
We saw that again recently, when an appeals court had to tell a state that they were overstepping their legal boundaries again. Bill Pan writes,
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a major part of New York state’s restrictions on carrying firearms, handing gun rights advocates a partial victory in their challenge to a law they say drastically curtailed where licensed gun owners may carry in the Empire State.
In a decision issued on Monday, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling blocking New York from enforcing its ban on firearms on private property open to the public—such as restaurants, gas stations, and retail stores—without the owner’s express consent.
Under that provision, part of New York’s 2022 Concealed Carry Improvement Act, even people with valid concealed carry licenses cannot carry firearms on private property unless the property owner explicitly allows it.
Second Amendment advocates have called New York’s law, as well as similar measures in Hawaii and elsewhere, “vampire laws,” drawing a parallel to the folklore that a vampire cannot enter a private home unless expressly invited inside.
It’s absolutely insane that New York (and Hawaii) thought that they had the right to tell people that they weren’t allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights on private property unless the owner of that property explicitly stated that they were allowing that.
It’s almost as if the State of New York doesn’t want you to be able to be able to carry your gun or use it to save a life.
And clearly, they don’t.
Fortunately, though, the courts know the law even if New York legislators and their governor don’t.
Good for this appeals court for making the right decision about this issue.