{"id":873,"date":"2016-07-10T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T05:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=873"},"modified":"2016-07-10T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T05:33:41","slug":"curious-supreme-court-opinion-should-be-strong-argument-against-excessive-regulations-but-it-wont-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/07\/curious-supreme-court-opinion-should-be-strong-argument-against-excessive-regulations-but-it-wont-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Supreme Court opinion should be strong argument against excessive regulations (but it won&#8217;t be)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 548px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/168015456\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 57.116788% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/168015456?et=lDyL74ZoTYJbRwvREgZpMA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=m5IEcwqJOuTVNYzJJc_jzheGdoFwWZdRM_xXava8vAI=\" width=\"548\" height=\"313\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The standing argument when it comes to criminals being criminals is that not a single, extra law would ever prevent them from committing the crime they are hell-bent on committing. But that truth has never stopped big government proponents from adding new regulations anyway. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore gun laws are needed,\u201d they say, after mass shootings like the one in Orlando. \u201cIf only there was a waiting period after a gun purchase,\u201d goes the thinking. Then what? The killer would have a chance to consider the law against murder and change his mind? This line of thinking is ludicrous, yet its prevalence runs rampant in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>But a curious thing appeared in a recent Supreme Court opinion that if read out of context, would be considered a very strong argument against excessive regulations having any impact on lawbreakers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there is no reason to believe that an extra layer of regulation would have affected that behavior. Determined wrongdoers, already ignoring existing statutes and safety measures, are unlikely to be convinced to adopt safe practices by a new overlay of regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As David French at <em>National Review<\/em> pointed out, you might think the Supreme Court had gone \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/437176\/crazy-right-wing-supreme-court-rejects-government-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">crazy right-wing<\/a>\u201d were it not for the context in which the argument was made. And that\u2019s what makes this all the more egregious.<\/p>\n<p>The argument was made in the SCOTUS opinion that struck down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/06\/scotus-decision-threatens-self-governance-and-the-unborn\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Texas law<\/a> that required abortion facilities to be as sanitary as surgical facilities. The majority opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/15pdf\/15-274_p8k0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">stated on page 27<\/a> that no \u201cnew overlay of regulations\u201d would have prevented the practices of serial abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is serving a life sentence for killing live babies on his unsanitary abortion tables.<\/p>\n<p>With that context in mind, reading, \u201cDetermined wrongdoers, already ignoring existing statutes and safety measures, are unlikely to be convinced to adopt safe practices by a new overlay of regulations,\u201d has a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is fine making this argument when it comes to \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d but not when it comes to American\u2019s guaranteed Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet another reason why we need, more than ever, a Convention of States.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme 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