Because while there is a general exodus from the state, there is an even greater exodus from NYC.
So there are net people moving out of NYC and moving upstate.
They do have the English bill of rights from 1689 that guarantees an RKBA (limited to protestants, and weapons suitable to self defense, but an RKBA none the less), ours was derived from that.
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AI might upend the entire apple cart in the next 10 or 20 years.
Things might go *very* sideways depending on how that shakes out.
You could have a situation where productivity goes through the roof, so prices plummet all over the place, but at the same time most people won't be able to find...
The trick is I don't think I'll see the "get better" side of that in my lifetime, so I'd prefer the "get worse" side proceed as slowly as possible.
But, for sure, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
That's what the controversy is about here.
Trump's DOJ is pursuing the argument that it's still a tax even at $0.
And since SCOTUS already upheld a tax that you're not allowed to pay at all in the '86 shenanigans, it's not clear that they will reach the only logical conclusion here.
Maybe...
The problem there is that if you create a system where we *need* to know what that church was teaching in order to reach a conclusion, then the conclusion will be subject to the whims of fashion.
Now, I agree, if it's causing actual physical harm to the child, then that's actionable abuse.
But...
What Trump could have done would have been to simply not defend the indefensible before SCOTUS.
He doesn't have the power to remove the NFA, true.
But what people were asking in this case is when people brought the challenge to SCOTUS, just don't fight them.
When GOA et. al argued before...