that is, the pseudonymous gay plaintiff in the San Francisco gun-ban case. He attended the Halbrook/Kates event (see post below). Most people were, I believe, unaware of his presence.I got the chance to shake his hand and thank him. I told him what he was doing was “gutsy” and he smiled and agreed.
It takes time and effort to be selected for public housing in San Francisco, and by simply volunteering to be the plaintiff in this civil rights case, this man could lose his home.
For those who think that San Francisco’s various bans are the result of left-coast cluelessness rather than malevolence, the plaintiff noted that in his building’s community center, he’d heard discussion of gun bans as a deliberate tactic for use to get rid of a specific voting bloc.
The framed poster above, on display in the Independent Institute, was particularly apropos.
David, it sounds to me like deprivation of Heller rights under the Second is only one of several civil rights deprivations this plaintiff has suffered at the hands of the SFO Housing Authority.
This suit needs to be broadened. BTW, my spouse could tell you about deliberate discrimination: she ran a “project” in Indianapolis back in the ’70s, and they had such practices back then, so we are looking at a 30-year history of this sort of thing.