02-08-2024, 10:43 PM
The issue I see here isn't one of 2A so I won't just into a pro/anti gun rights argument here. What I am seeing as the major issue here is how the Hawaiian SC decided that the SCOTUS doesn't reflect how Hawaiians should live and therefore SCOTUS rulings that they don't like don't apply to Hawaiian citizens as a whole.
This case was over a gun issue, but let's say that it was over a free speech issue, or a housing of national guardsmen's, or even as I stated above a voting issue. How would the issue of only allowing native Hawaiians the ability to vote in any election sound to other Americans living there?
As you can see the issue isn't a gun issue, it's a Constitutional issue. If the SCOTUS rulings can be tossed in favor of local home rule, then what is the fabric that holds the nation together? Common laws and social mores are what makes a country a complete entity. When one piece starts to defer from the mores of society and ignores the laws of the land, then what do we have?
This case was over a gun issue, but let's say that it was over a free speech issue, or a housing of national guardsmen's, or even as I stated above a voting issue. How would the issue of only allowing native Hawaiians the ability to vote in any election sound to other Americans living there?
As you can see the issue isn't a gun issue, it's a Constitutional issue. If the SCOTUS rulings can be tossed in favor of local home rule, then what is the fabric that holds the nation together? Common laws and social mores are what makes a country a complete entity. When one piece starts to defer from the mores of society and ignores the laws of the land, then what do we have?
