Saturday, December 24, 2022

#GunsForSelfDefenseOnly (cont'd)

Email "What is wrong with the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly?"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: gvs@jh.edu, cgvs@jhu.edu, contactus@protectourschools.com, cbarry@cornell.edu,
jpeterson68@hamline.edu, preventgunviolencefl@gmail.com, gail@bawnfl.org, info@giffords.org, melie@uabmc.edu, mslay@uab.edu, eeaton@uab.edu,
mary.bernstein@uconn.edu, jennifer.dineen@uconn.edu, kerri.raissian@uconn.edu, mstankiewicz@bradyunited.org, sona.dimidjian@colorado.edu, beverly.kingston@colorado.edu, jonathanm@bebta.org, donna.mejia@colorado.edu, Emergency.Medicine@cuanschutz.edu, StartClinic@UCDenver.edu, mdoucet3@jhu.edu, alabama@momschapterleaders.org
Sent: Fri, Dec 23, 2022 4:55 pm
Subject: What is wrong with the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly?
I am sorry to bother you gun violence reduction proponents again.
Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly, and why that mantra is not at this time excellent for shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, most, if not all, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence?
Compared to #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly being good across the range of common sense solutions for reducing gun violence, advocacy terminology like "banning weapons of war" is of limited applicability in the universe of gun violence reduction ideas.
When gun rights advocates scream about "taking away Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens," many Americans, I believe, tune out of the discussion, whereas debating about #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly I think can get a lot of engagement of average Americans.[asterisk]
If you think I am wrong here, please tell me why.
If you agree with what I am saying here, it would be great to hear that from you.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck

[asterisk] It seems to me the recent Rhode Island high capacity gun magazine ban case (Judge upholds Rhode Island's high-capacity gun magazine ban. Here's what it means) shows the merits of the mantra of #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly.
The below are quoted from the foregoing article and are either exact quotations of what Judge McConnell said in the case or characterize what the Judge said:
"Consistent with its obligation to protect public safety, but consonant with its fealty to the Constitution, the Rhode Island General Assembly has responded with, among other firearms regulations, the [large capacity magazine] Ban."
The Second Amendment protects the right to people to "keep and bear arms," and at its core the right to self-defense, McConnell observed.
The ban was a reasonable and measured approach to restricting large-capacity magazines, which in practice easily convert handguns into semi-automatic weapons capable of rapid fire, he said.
He accepted the opinion of an expert for the state that throughout history "high capacity firearms ... were understood to be weapons of war or anti-insurrection, not weapons of individual self defense."
Where the Judge refers to "fealty to the Constitution," the touchstone for that is that SCOTUS has pronounced that there is a constitutional right of individuals to own and carry guns in public for self-defense.
That right does not exist in a vacuum, and there is also a governmental "obligation to protect public safety."
Those two things (the "right to self-defense" and "protect[ing] public safety") frame and will frame just about every gun control case.
I think the public can understand those two things (the "right to self-defense" and "protect[ing] public safety"), and the public understanding those two things will allow the public to better evaluate what they hear from the two sides about gun control cases.


Email to Baltimore City Council members
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: CouncilPresident@baltimorecity.gov, Zeke.Cohen@baltimorecity.gov, Danielle.McCray@baltimorecity.gov, Ryan.Dorsey@baltimorecity.gov, Mark.Conway@baltimorecity.gov, Isaac.Schleifer@baltimorecity.gov, Sharon.Middleton@baltimorecity.gov, James.Torrence@baltimorecity.gov, Kristerfer.Burnett@baltimorecity.gov, John.Bullock@baltimorecity.gov, Phylicia.Porter@baltimorecity.gov, Eric.Costello@baltimorecity.gov, Robert.Stokes@baltimorecity.gov, Antonio.Glover@baltimorecity.gov, Odette.Ramos@baltimorecity.gov,
Cc: clinton.woods@birminghamal.gov, hunter.williams@birminghamal.gov, valerie.abbott@birminghamal.gov, jonathan.moore2@birminghamal.gov, Darrell.OQuinn@birminghamal.gov, crystal.smitherman@birminghamal.gov, wardine.alexander@birminghamal.gov, carol.clarke@birminghamal.gov, latonya.tate@birminghamal.gov, tysons@jccal.org, stephensj@jccal.org, KnightJoe@jccal.org, ammonss@jccal.org, scalesl@jccal.org,
Sent: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 7:02 pm
Subject: #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly in Alabama
Dear Baltimore City Council Members:
In Alabama I am pushing the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly for use in shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence. This has included emailing numerous Alabama city councilors and county commissioners. See https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/12/mayors-letter-to-schumer-mcconnell-re.html.
In Alabama, the GOP controlled state legislature has statewide control over gun laws and gun regulation and it is opposed to common sense solutions for reducing gun violence. Alabama local governments are powerless as to guns in the face of the GOP state legislature control.
Maryland is auspicious for the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly getting used in shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence in Maryland.
I hope you will consider the same.
For what it is worth, I am copying my Birmingham City Councilors and Jefferson County (AL) county commissioners on this email.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL

Email to Maryland constitutional law professors
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: rboldt@law.umaryland.edu <rboldt@law.umaryland.edu>; mmeyerson@ubalt.edu <mmeyerson@ubalt.edu>; higginbotham@ubalt.edu <higginbotham@ubalt.edu>; mstearns@law.umaryland.edu <mstearns@law.umaryland.edu>
Cc: dmsmolin@samford.edu <dmsmolin@samford.edu>; phorwitz@law.ua.edu <phorwitz@law.ua.edu>; mbrandon@law.ua.edu <mbrandon@law.ua.edu>; aolree@faulkner.edu <aolree@faulkner.edu>; fvars@law.ua.edu <fvars@law.ua.edu>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>
Sent: Tue, Feb 14, 2023 10:25 am
Subject: #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly in Alabama
Dear Professors Boldt, Meyerson, Higginbotham and Stearns:
I sent the below email to the Baltimore City Council members in connection with the January 29th mass shooting in Baltimore that is reported at 2-year-old among 4 people shot in Baltimore - ABC7 New York (abc7ny.com).
My email urged the use of the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly for shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence.
Such mantra needs supporting opinion about what the Second Amendment protects and does not protect.
In Alabama, I have solicited such opinion from Alabama constitutional law professors (whom I have copied on this email).
I am sending this email to you as Maryland constitutional law professors for whatever assistance you may be moved to provide, relative to my urging the Baltimore City Council to take up the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly for reducing gun violence in Maryland.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL

Email to Michigan constitutional law professors
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: michael.lawrence@law.msu.edu, eboddie@umich.edu, caminker@umich.edu, samerman@umich.edu, rdfrdman@umich.edu, dhalber@umich.edu, dherzog@umich.edu
Cc:dmsmolin@samford.edu, phorwitz@law.ua.edu, mbrandon@law.ua.edu , aolree@faulkner.edu, fvars@law.ua.edu, jvance@law.ua.edu, rboldt@law.umaryland.edu, mmeyerson@ubalt.edu, higginbotham@ubalt.edu, mstearns@law.umaryland.edu,
Sent: Fri, Feb 24, 2023 4:46 am
Subject: Michigan law professor support for Michigan gun control
Dear Professors Lawrence, Boddie, Caminker, Erman, Friedman, Halberstam and Herzog:
I am a retired lawyer in Alabama.
The history-and-tradition framework for gun cases that the United States Supreme Court enunciated in the Bruen case has made gun control much more difficult to achieve in the United States. Supreme Court ruling creates turmoil over gun laws in lower courts | PBS NewsHour; Tracking the Effects of the Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling
I have come up with the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly to guide the shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense gun solutions.
I have solicited constitutional law professors in Alabama and elsewhere to consider the constitutional viability of such mantra for pursuing gun control. See https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/12/gunsforselfdefenseonly-contd.html and
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/pressuring-gov-ivey-for-leadership-on.html.
I hope one or more constitutional law professors in Michigan will take this up.
The persons I have copied on this email are Alabama and Maryland constitutional law professors to whom I have previously sent emails.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
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