Back in January the New York State legislature rammed through a major gun-control bill, in the middle of the night, as a hysterical reaction to the Newtown shootings. The legislators were given just a few minutes to read the bill before a vote was called, in violation of a law that imposes a three-day review period. It was a shameful example of everything that responsible, transparent, and deliberative lawmaking is not, and a great many New Yorkers were plenty steamed about it.
Now the state’s Supreme Court is going to review the the process by which the law was enacted. Let’s hope they strike it down.
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Isn’t this the sort of arbitrary government that makes guns necessary?
Jeffery Hodges
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Exactly.
The legislators were given just a few minutes to read the bill before a vote was called
This doesn’t seem like a very significant difficulty…isn’t the obvious response here to vote an automatic ‘no’?
That would have been appropriate, yes.
Appropriate, yes. Obvious? Maybe. We’re talking state legislators here. Not the best and the brightest, like, for example, Batshit-crazy Pelosi.