I’ll take: Why do lawyers always seem to find ways for their fellow lawyers to make a living?<\/p>\n
Why Does the ABA Have a Standing Committee on \u2018Gun Violence\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n Darin Scheer is a general commercial litigation attorney in rural Casper, Wyoming, where he lives on a small cattle farm with his wife. As a volunteer firefighter, he has responded to suicides and accidental shootings.<\/p>\n He is an [American Bar Association] delegate for his state. At the 2020 midyear meeting in Austin, Texas, he objected to a resolution in favor of stricter rules for gun permits.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that the ABA should be in the business of recommending one-size-fits-all, top-down requirements for an issue like this that is constitutional,\u201d Scheer said before the House passed the resolution.<\/p>\n What\u2019s often lost in the decades-long fight over gun rights and laws is that Americans\u2019 relationship to guns differs depending on where they live, Scheer says. He says people in his community do not buy guns just for self-defense. There is a tradition of fathers passing rifles down to their sons and teaching them how to hunt. Scheer says it sometimes appears to gun owners that constitutional rights are trampled because of the \u201cirresponsible behavior of the few.\u201d<\/p>\n Is there space in the middle to meet? J. Adam Skaggs, a\u00a0special advisor to the ABA\u2019s Standing Committee on Gun Violence and chief counsel and policy director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence<\/strong>, says it is hard to find common ground when the gun rights side is pushing \u201can extremist agenda in the courts.\u201d On the other hand, he says gun control advocates have much in common with Americans who support reasonable regulations.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the central argument is that like all other rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited and has always coexisted with strong regulations and laws,\u201d Skaggs says. \u201cThat\u2019s no different today than it was at any other point in history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll take: Why do lawyers always seem to find ways for their fellow lawyers to make a living? Why Does the ABA Have a Standing Committee on \u2018Gun Violence\u2019? Darin Scheer is a general commercial litigation attorney in rural Casper, Wyoming, where he lives on a small cattle farm with his wife. As a volunteer … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62392,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions\/62392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}