I'm not an organizer nor do I have the skills, but can someone please organize a nationwide protest at every federal court building against the Supreme Court "bump stock" decision? We have to make it extremely clear that we will not stand for it.
That's the wrong branch of government, though.
It's up to Congress to write bump stock laws, not the courts. We keep reelecting the lawmakers who kept bump stocks legal.
Protest Congress and tell them to fix it. And for god sake, stop reelecting the same clowns that wrote the law that way.
@SocialJusticeHeals that's incorrect, though.
Congress wrote the law that left bump stocks out and has had plenty of years to change the law.
Congress made that ruling, if you want to put it that way, when they defined machine guns in statute. That the courts.
@volkris Congress can make the law, but the Supreme Court ruling that bump stocks don't match the current law is still a BAD decision by the Supreme Court.
The current law congress made about machine guns does not *explicitly* exclude bump stocks from the ban, SCOTUS decided incorrectly that it *implicitly* excludes bump stocks from the ban.
@SocialJusticeHeals no, you have that backwards.
The question was not whether bump stocks were excluded but whether they were included. The exact opposite.
And they pointed out that Congress wrote the law fairly specifically, focusing on the operation of the trigger, and bump stocks because of how they functioned didn't fall under Congress's definition.
Again, the people we keep electing had every opportunity to change the law if it needed changing. If the focus on the trigger was the wrong standard then they could have fixed it to the right one.
But once Congress wrote the law with that level of specificity, SCOTUS was right to point out that Trump acted illegally in trying to implement a ban.
@volkris The protest would be on the SCOTUS who ruled that bump stocks do not convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun, when that is what they in fact do.