UMMMM FORUM RULE 15 Please.
•(15) WE ADVOCATE FOR THE 'LAW-ABIDING' ONLY: Posts advocating illegal acts of any kind are NOT welcome here. Even if you feel that a law is unconstitutional we do not break it, we repeal it or defeat it in the courts.
Let's allow the courts to decide what's against the law, not our forum rules. I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6, and (hypothetically speaking but God forbid), if I were in any of the following situations, I would shoot first (gun or camera) and face the law later, without at any turn feeling that I "disobeyed the law":
1. I'm at a restaurant and I walk into the bar section for an instant to say hello to an old friend. Her jealous boyfriend stumbles in and starts shooting at her and me with his .380 bodyguard (fortunately he can't hit the broadside of a barn with that 700 pound trigger, but he keeps coming and shooting). I draw my concealed .45 and aim center-mast. She's now alive -- and newly-single. I'm alive, but in violation of my CCW because I happened to take the extra steps into a bar. We do advocate for "law-abiding only," but let a jury decide whether my actions were justified. I guarantee that in a case like this I'll get my license back, and a very nice acquittal (or even a no-action).
2. I'm on a public street and I see a Rodney King going down. I pull my weapon (in this case an iPhone) and start "shooting."
3. If I were teaching a college class and someone were to come in and try to pull a college massacre, I'd be glad I was concealed and protected, even if it were against current statutes.
See, I think that "law-abiding only" undertakes the
entire legal system, and not simply the statute, ordinance (we have pre-emption now), or otherwise. The entire legal system involves a right to have all your evidence preserved rather than destroyed, a right to due process in both the procedural (where often your presumptively illegal act becomes legal by a virtue of a LEOs misconduct) and substantive senses of the term, a right to a fair and impartial jury of your peers, a right to counsel, and a right to trial. Until every legal avenue is exhausted, whatever I may advocate is "law-abiding" only: even something that may initially
seem illegal may be law-abiding because of a LEOs mis-step.
The truth is, most of the time we don't know what's legal or illegal until it has been ventilated in the courts. In this sense, I follow forum rule 15 religiously and with vigor. Rule 15 rules.