Second Amendment Friends vs. Foes
Over at the Second Amendment Foundation’s Chicago Gun Case website, there is a tab that takes you to a case filings page where you can view the amici briefs filed in the case. They have been organized by “Amici Curiae In Support of Petitioners” and “Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party.” I read the latter as “Against,” but that’s neither here nor there.
The important thing is the count of briefs for the petitioners vs count of briefs for neither. I counted 30 briefs for the petitioners and only 2 briefs for neither. As usual, the “Against” briefs are from the Brady Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Foundation. I opened these briefs and they basically argue “if it’s not broken, then don’t fix it.”
I sincerely hope that SCOTUS carefully considers the weight of the arguments presented from the petitioner’s perspective; the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals presented the Supreme Court with something that really needs fixing. Restore the Second Amendment to those states and cities that oppress the civil rights of gun owners and prospective gun owners.
