California’s Nullification of the Second Amendment

By Greg Camp

Fayetteville, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- America has had a long history of nullification, the idea that federal laws can be ignored within the borders of a particular state. More broadly, it is the notion that the rules don’t apply if I and the people in my neighborhood—or jury box or county or half of the continent west of the Mississippi—don’t agree with them.

This is a natural opinion in a nation that began by telling the king of England what he could do with his stamps—and the contemporary fascination with the royal wedding suggests that lots of Americans have forgotten the spirit of 1776. But a nation cannot operate if a large enough percentage of the population feels no obligation to work within the system. And that’s the inherent contradiction in our national character. We threw off an unsatisfactory ruler, and now we expect our people to follow the rules.

What we can say is that the founding principles of this country have been better with regard to the human well being than many experiments tried before. We haven’t always lived up to them, and there is work left to do, but our system that respects basic …Read the Rest

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