How the Texas abortion law endangers gun rights

[Diamond_Dog]

(snip)

By removing itself from policing the law, the state figured, it would leave no one for providers to sue to block enforcement. So far, the strategy has worked. Clinics stopped offering most abortions, and courts have allowed the law to remain in force. For the moment, at least, a constitutionally guaranteed right is in the equivalent of a medically induced coma.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments over the law, supported by the usual friend-of-the-court briefs from groups that support or oppose abortion rights. But one of the most illuminating briefs came from a group that is resolutely noncommittal on reproductive issues.

The Firearms Policy Coalition is exclusively concerned with upholding the Second Amendment as it interprets it. The organization believes the rights of gun owners are just as much at risk from the Texas law as the rights of abortion providers and patients.

If this law is allowed to stand, letting Texas infringe the right to abortion, another state could adopt the same scheme for a different purpose: to deny the individual right to keep and bear arms.

(snip)

Anyone buying or selling a pistol or an AR-15 could be forced to hand over $10,000 — for doing something that the Constitution is supposed to protect. Gun-shy states could also up the ante. They could offer judgments of $100,000 or $1 million, making lawsuits far more enticing and far more intimidating.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-abortion-law-endangers-gun-100054662.html

[LiberatedUSA]

1. They would have to make sure the snitching is extremely anonymous.

Someone with lots of guns and facing bankruptcy, who also knows the person that is going to get their money, may decide if their life is over so will the person that sued them for all they are worth.

It won’t get to this though and nobody should want to mimic Texas. If the Supreme Court allows this, then Red and Blue states will be passing these laws at a competition rate on who can make the other side suffer the most. That won’t be sustainable.

[Hangingon]

2. We have a right to confront our accusers

[Pepsidog]

3. Good post. Kagen hammered this point home as did Brett "I love Beer".

[Chainfire]

4. The problem with Texas

is Texans...