Thread: Idaho tells Congress: 'Cease & Desist' w-the Firearms Tyranny!!!!

Atmo is right, crunker. It is true that states or localities "can" supersede the federal government insofar as it is possible for them to pass and enforce laws that contradict or contravene federal laws. But if it ever comes to a legal challenge, the federal law wins every time; the Constitution says so, article 6, paragraph 2, the Supremacy Clause. So while they "can" supersede federal law in this practical sense, they can't pass a law that actually, legally trumps a federal law. They can just act like they have and get away with it until matters are set straight in court.

And yes, of course he's serious about the Civil War. The federal government prosecuted a war that devastated half the country and killed better than half a million people in order to stop previously independent polities from withdrawing from a political compact that they had entered into voluntarily. Apparently the United States is like a gang--you want out, you have to get the shit beat out of you (except even then you don't get out). I don't know about you, but I think that's a pretty shitty way to run a country.