Regarding your request to the ACLU: don’t hold your breath waiting for a response. The ACLU has a refined appreciation of American civil rights; basically, American are not allowed to practice self defense unless unarmed, and for the ACLU the second amendment doesn’t exist, except insofar as to redundantly authorize the state to arm select citizens. Thus, the ACLU has never taken California to court for discriminating against (denying) citizens who are not celebrities or VIPs concealed weapons permits, but the ACLU will file suit in a heart beat, if, for example, a cross or other religious symbol should be sited on city or state property. The ACLU will file suit on any obstacle to the right to abortion on the innocent–a right, unlike the second amendment, discovered and constructed after almost two centuries of looking for it by judges–and in the meantime the ACLU will make sure a speedy trial and execution of the guilty is impossible by promoting the obstacle of endless due process. It’s quite obvious that the ACLU is on the side of the culprit rather than the victim.
