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Originally posted by legion
That's a blatant fallacy.
You assume that all lawyers and judges are willing to discern the clear meaning of a law. History has proven repeatedly that judges are quite capable of "interpreting" a law in whatever manner suites their personal politics. This includes "interpreting" certain laws to be vague when clear, and others to be clear when intentionally vague.
If the Chicago gun ban made it to the Supreme Court, I am quite certain they would be overturned. The thing is, whenever someone is charged under the bans and there is any indication that it will be challenged, the charges are mysteriously dropped. Therefore, they remain unchallenged outside of Cook County. Cite me one case where these bans have made it to federal court.
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It's as fallacious as Fastpat's assertion that the best evidence of all is the fact that there are over 100 million gun owners in America who own more than 600 milliion firearms of all types means the clause is clear.