re: #21 William Barnett-Lewis

Obdi, You have ignored the answer for months - your car is not a right. The gun is. That’s all the difference needed.

Guns are still a regulated right, so no, this objection doesn’t work.

A cop can stop you for just about any reason he wants to with or without running your plates, The courts have rather consistently held that to stop for a gun requires probably cause and that “stop and frisk” ala NYC is unconstitutional.

I’m not talking about what is or is not legal in the current moment, but what would be reasonable and sane. And again, I’d say that gun-rights people resting on court decisions is just a terrible, terrible long-term strategy. What is your recourse, then, when the courts begin to side against you, and rule 5-4 against instead of 5-4 with?

If an argument can’t be made for gun rights without appeal to court decisions, what does that say about those arguments?