Time For Traitors To Step Aside
By Michael Z. Williamson
October 21, 2003

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KeepAndBearArms.com -- Folks, let�s start with some facts:�

FACT:� The Silveira vs. Lockyer case is at the Supreme Court now.� Done deal.�

FACT:� The Silveira case is either going to be ignored or heard by the justices.�

FACT:� A lot of work has been done by a very competent attorney named Roy Lucas, who has an excellent track record at SCOTUS.�

To that end, I�m puzzled what the current legions of detractors are trying to accomplish.� No amount of complaining about it being �The wrong case at the wrong court� is going to stop the ball�it�s rolling downhill as we speak.�

No amount of backstabbing and undermining is going to improve the case.�

There�s a small, but vocal, group of critics getting in a peeing contest as to who can make the worst claims about the backers and attorneys involved.� These people have been around politics long enough to understand the concept of caucus�once a platform exists, one puts disagreement aside and supports the party.� Our party -- those who support the 2^nd Amendment -- is going to have a day in court.� Done deal.�

In which case, I can only use a harsh term about those pecking at the corpse before it�s even dead.

That term is �TRAITOR.��

Yes, it�s a harsh term.� It�s also accurate.�

What in the hell are you trying to accomplish, folks?� There are three possibilities here:�

1:� SCOTUS refuses to hear the case.� It goes away, someone tries again.� No actions on your part can improve this scenario.�

2:� SCOTUS rules against us.� That seems to be the big fear here.� �But what if we loooooooooose?� I hear people whine.� Fact is, most District and lower courts are of the opinion that we don�t have a 2^nd Amendment.� Several of those judicial opinions are why this case exists, right?� If you step into the arena, there�s a risk of losing.� But if you refuse to fight, you have lost preemptively.� And even among those courts that recognize it, the 2^nd Amendment is not considered a civil right for purposes of civil law�one cannot sue anyone for �violating my Second Amendment rights.��

This case hopes to address that.� We have good briefs, good clients, good attorneys and a plan.� Give us more competent amicus briefs if you want to help.�

3:� SCOTUS rules in our favor.� Do please assure me this is what you�d like to see!� It would define keeping and bearing arms as a right, permanently.� From there, we have a basis to HAMMER our opponents politically and socially as �bigoted extremists attempting to undermine our civil rights.�� And make no mistake, we will.�

Now, complaints, aspersions, second-guesses, death threats against our attorneys and ad hominem attacks and pejoratives will not accomplish possibility #3.� THAT is what we�re here about, folks.�

I�ve got friends supporting this case who are Trotskyites, neo-Conservatives, Libertarians, gays, Christians, Muslims, etc.� If we define the 2^nd Amendment as only applying to �right-thinking people of the right political and racial makeup,� we�ll not only be bigots, we�ll lose by our own divisiveness.� Recall your Franklin.� �We must all hang together, or we most assuredly will all hang separately.��

Frankly, I�m puzzled.� It seems as if a certain cross-section of our community wants to say, �We Told You So!� Neener, Neener, Neener!� Your suit failed!��

Childish.�

Not only childish, but it would mean they�d be gloating along with Sarah Brady, Chucky Schumer, Dianne Feinstein and other enemies of freedom.�

Just whose side are these people on?� They aren�t on ours, and they aren�t staying quiet and working in parallel on their own cases.� Their only goal seems to be sabotage of the case we do have.� That is traitorous.� That makes the Brady Bunch cackle with glee.�

The case is at SCOTUS.� Support it, or step aside.� But do everyone a favor, and keep your misgivings to yourself.�