cognitive dissonance in malum prohibitum

To paraphrase the country song: “God is great, Beer is good, People are crazy!”

The following excerpt does not require a lot of explanation.  However, it does require you to think seriously about the legal decisions and their implications.
 
Invoking a distinction drawn in Emerald Steel between provisions that “affirmatively authorize” conduct that federal law prohibits and provisions that exempt conduct from criminal prosecution, the Court of Appeals held in Willis that Oregon’s concealed handgun licensing statute is not preempted by federal law, because it does not affirmatively authorize what the federal statute prohibits — i.e., possession of firearms by unlawful drug users — but, instead, merely exempts licensees from state criminal liability for the possession of a concealed handgun. 235 Or App at 627.—Oregon Supreme Court
 
 
And the Sheriff is left to decide which Master he or she will obey … enter the fallacy of the Supremacy argument … this will not end well.
 
Under common-law, as long as people conduct themselves in a peaceful manner, neither legislative jurisdiction has authority to interfere with the inherent right of self defense … or infringe upon mans’ means to do so.
 
 
Retain a strong moral sense,
Hans
 
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative ofeither losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.” 
     – Frederic Bastiat
    
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