Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Alabama is now seeking their own unconstitutional bill to nullify federal gun laws.
Just like Mississippi, Alabama should know better. 750,000 people died in the Civil War that began because of nullification laws! Stop it!
Of course, I don't think that several states passing unconstitutional laws is going to result in a new civil war. There are a lot of reasons for why a civil war like we saw in this country in the 1860's will not happen again. At least the same way that it did then.
The supremacy clause of the Constitution dictates that the states have to follow federal laws. These states that are trying to pass nullification bills so they don't have to follow laws they don't like is rather ironic. They are trying so hard to protect their constitutional right to bear arms* that they think it is acceptable to ignore other parts of the Constitution. They can't have it both ways.
*This premise is open to debate whether that is what was even intended, but for sake of argument...
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