Redneck States Are Borrowing a Confederate Plan to Protect Their Guns

[SecularMotion]

Have you heard of "gun nullification"? It's all the rage. Seriously, so hot. It's especially popular in these Southern states who've used nullification before to tell the federales to butt the hell out of their business. Back then, nullification protected slavery and Jim Crow. Now, it protects your Smith & Wesson.

Since the time of John Calhoun in South Carolina, nullification doctrine—the fancy-bred, college-educated stepbrother of those mental deficients, the militia and sovereign citizen movements—has held that America's several states have the right to nullify federal laws that infringe on their constitutional liberties. Unless we're talking about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment rights of minorities in these nullificationist states, in which case their freedom is totally treading on our freedom, dude.

But no matter. Liberty-loving bears of small brain have found a five-syllable word, and it must necessarily lead to their promised land. Kansas and Alaska have already passed gun nullification laws, while Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Missouri have been pushing. Nine states, led by Montana, have passed laws asserting that gunmakers in their states are exempt from federal regulations, and so they can make all the full-auto machine guns and assault weapons they want.

The real fun comes when local politicians and law enforcement officers get in the nullification game: Nearly 250 sheriffs from Oregon to California to Arizona to Minnesota have written open letters defying federal gun laws and threatening to arrest U.S. government officials working in their jurisdictions. One rural Florida sheriff even beat prosecution last fall for releasing (and destroying evidence related to) a suspect who'd illegally held a concealed weapon.

http://gawker.com/redneck-states-are-borrowing-a-confederate-plan-to-prot-1521524656

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Wasn't that settled when they raised their flag?

The white one. The only confederate flag that mattered.

[gejohnston]

2. the writer is either ignorant or dishonest.

given the tone of his writing, he is both as well as uneducated.
Nullification never protected slavery, because there were no federal laws against it. In fact, it was the slave states who railed against states rights because some northern states refused to obey the fugitive slave laws, which said required local officials to actively prevent fugit. That was an example of nullification.
Using this guy's logic, Washington and Colorado are using "Confederate plans to protect their pot".

[petronius]

3. Maybe, but I got something of real value out of the piece:

I followed the link about the Florida man being set on fire by his dog, and I learned that flea and tick spray is flammable. Which I did not know (although granted I will probably never need to know, unless my cat takes up smoking or tries to use the grill)...

[friendly_iconoclast]

12. Good point. Nullification of the Fugitive Slave Act, per your Wikipedia link:

Nullification

In 1854, the Wisconsin Supreme Court became the only state high court to declare the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, as a result of a case involving fugitive slave Joshua Glover, and Sherman Booth, who led efforts that thwarted Glover's recapture. Ultimately, in 1859 in Ableman v. Booth the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the state court.[6]

In November 1850, the Vermont legislature approved the "Habeas Corpus Law," requiring Vermont judicial and law enforcement officials to assist captured fugitive slaves. This law rendered the federal Fugitive Slave Act effectively unenforceable in Vermont and caused a storm of controversy nationally because it was a "nullification" of federal law, a concept that had become highly charged in debates over slavery. The famous poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier had called for such laws and the Whittier controversy heightened angry pro-slavery reactions to the Vermont law. Virginia governor John B. Floyd warned that nullification could push the South toward secession, while President Millard Fillmore threatened to use the army to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act in Vermont. No actual events followed in Vermont, but the rhetoric of this flare-up echoed South Carolina's 1832 nullification crisis and Thomas Jefferson's 1798 Kentucky Resolutions.[7]

There's no doubt the restrictionistas' ire in regard to nullification laws is...selective

[NYC_SKP]

4. Adam Weinstein is an asshole and a bigot. An embarrassment, to be sure.

I loathe self-described "voices for the progressive community" when they demonstrate their outright bigotry with headlines like this.

He's got articles shitting on Wendy Davis, too, I see.

Fuck him.

[Packerowner740]

6. I don't like anyone that has to try to classify someone like "redneck"

[NYC_SKP]

8. Exactly. His others stories are just as trashy. I wonder if he's really a teabagger in disguise.

Going after Wendy Davis should be a crime punishable by, well, something harsh.

[Packerowner740]

11. I know it's off topic but what did he say about Wendy Davis?

I like in Texas so it impacts me and my vote.

[NYC_SKP]

13. She supports open carry, so he slams her for that and for an abortion position. It's convoluted.

Her critics' are using pretty convoluted logic to paint her as an abortion opponent, when in fact she filibustered the very legislation that they use to try to paint her as a bad person.



Because she said:

“My concern, even in the way the 20-week ban was written in this particular bill, was that it didn’t give enough deference between a woman and her doctor making this difficult decision, and instead tried to legislatively define what it was,”

They felt they could create headlines that read (Dallas News):

Wendy Davis backs 20-week abortion ban that defers to women

And Weinstein's stupid ass headline:

Wendy Davis Is Pretty Much Fine With the Abortion Ban She Filibustered

What the fuck?

[Packerowner740]

15. Sounds like he wants to twist it to fit his agenda.

Thanks.

[Straw Man]

5. Redneck States?

Way to wage culture war.

Asshole.

[Packerowner740]

7. Right!

[oneshooter]

9. And apparently Circuler agrees with the article, and it's racist remarks.

Don't see anything that says otherwise.

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. One wonders how the writer feels about nullification of Federal drug laws.

I have a near-certainty that in this case, some nullification laws are more equal than others...

[Eleanors38]

16. I just nullified that one tonight.

[Kaleva]

14. Calhoun was set straight by President Jackson who threatened to hang him.

Calhoun, who knew Jackson well as he was his former VP, took the threat seriously.

[Eleanors38]

17. From what I've read of Jackson, if he threatened you

you should leave the country.