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Semi-sorta related, via Doc Oc:
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In the late 70′s the Twin Cities area started becoming home to a wave of Hmong immigrants. They were allies who had lost their original homes after the Vietnam war, and through various factors many of them ended up in Minnesota. They’ve done pretty well here, it’s hard to stroll through a farmer’s market without perusing stands run by Hmong families, and Vietnamese restaurants are the dominant flavor of local Asian cuisine.
In addition, it appears the Hmong community has embraced a major part of Minnesota culture, deer hunting.
More Wisconsin related news:
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According to a DNR review, the major points of the law are:
Unless otherwise prohibited, it is legal to carry a long gun, uncased and unloaded, in or on a motor vehicle in Wisconsin at any time.
It will be legal to possess and transport uncased bows and crossbows in a vehicle. However, bows may not have an arrow nocked. A crossbow may not be cocked unless it is unloaded (meaning the bolt or arrow is removed) and cased.
The law allows individuals to hunt from a stationary non-motorized vehicle, such as a hay wagon, so long as it is not attached to a motor vehicle. Previously, hunting from any vehicle was prohibited, without the distinction of whether the vehicle was motorized or stationary.
Hmmm...interesting:
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Sullivan refers here to District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 decision where the Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right—not a collective one—to keep and bear arms. For an allegedly radical piece of conservatism, the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment has a curiously distinguished list of liberal admirers. Among them are Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, a longtime friend and adviser to Barack Obama, whose influential legal textbook American Constitutional Law was revised back in 2000 to endorse the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. The two previous editions, published in 1978 and 1988, respectively, had argued that the Second Amendment protected only a collective right, but subsequent legal scholarship prompted Tribe to change his mind. “My conclusion came as something of a surprise to me, and an unwelcome surprise,” Tribe later admitted to The New York Times. “I have always supported as a matter of policy very comprehensive gun control.” Not exactly the words of a deranged Tea Party extremist.
Other liberal supporters of the “radical” individual rights interpretation include Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar, one of the most respected progressive legal historians at work today, who has argued that the Second Amendment secures a “core right to self-protection,” and University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson, whose pioneering 1989 Yale Law Journal article "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" argued that it was time for liberals to take the entire Bill of Rights seriously.
In other words, several decades worth of legal scholarship and activism by players of all political stripes helped create the intellectual consensus that culminated in the Heller decision. It was no right-wing “spasm.”