Remember when a District Attorney in Manhattan had such a bad case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome, for the uninformed) that he put together a case and went after Trump in a way that other, unbiased lawyers said would be thrown out of any other court than one in New York City (where, it seems, TDS is an epidemic)?
You do? Well, that DA’s name is Alvin Bragg, and he’s decided to crawl out of his hole to push more stupid and completely wrongheaded cases, this time chiming in on a case before the Supreme Court of the United States (hat tip to here for the lead).
And Bragg absolutely took up the wrong side on this case (not that it’s a surprise, mind you). Luke McCoy writes,
A coalition of progressive prosecutors led by New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that states can presumptively ban firearms from all private property open to the public — including retail stores and restaurants — unless the owner affirmatively consents to firearms being allowed.
The brief, submitted in Wolford v. Lopez, supports Hawaii’s so-called “no-carry default” law, which criminalizes the act of carrying a firearm onto most private commercial property unless there is clear signage or express permission allowing firearms.
You won’t be the least bit surprised that the brief pushes the idea that guns make situations more dangerous on their own, apparently regardless of who is involved in the situation.
It’s that whole specter of the gun that can act on its own…
Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised that Bragg is pushing the idea that the Second Amendment is a “right” that the government has to explicitly allow you to exercise instead of what it is: a right that the government cannot legally prevent you from exercising (reread the text of the Second Amendment, Alvin. It will likely come as a revelation to you).
With the firearms rulings that have tended to come down from the current court, I’m hopeful that this case from Hawaii will be utterly shutdown so that the people of Hawaii are no longer prevented from exercising their Constitutional rights.
It’s an added bonus to me that a ruling like that would humiliate Alvin Bragg and his ilk.
