I don't understand your view point. I agree with the concept of voting not guilty in cases where someone is guilty of a crime you do not believe should be a crime.
But if someone has actually hurt someone else I can't imagine purposely letting them escape punishment if I can help it.
Let's say (just a random crime) Some cop videos himself raping and killing a child then sends the DVD to to the child's parents...
I don't think I would be able to set him free no matter what political point I was trying to make.
Well, if rapist after rapist and murderer after murderer are set free just because of unconstitutional gun laws being on the books then the gov't will be forced to decide: a) keep the guns laws and continue on with everyone being found not guilty of any crime or b) repeal the gun laws
I see it as letting one murderer go free so that the people can prevent the gov't from killing millions in the future.
Any future atrocities made by the people set free will be upon the hands of the gov't...they have a choice--repeal the gun laws !
People want to be safe, then make the choice perfectly clear to the people: repeal gun laws or no convictions going forward. Which is a safer alternative?
The gov't expects you not to use jury nullification....even though its legal.
To pass a law it requires 50% of a vote. To convict, 1 outta 12 is all that is required to negate a conviction (8.3 % of a "vote" of the people).
Assume that every gun owner refused to convict anyone starting today. How long would it take before gun laws start getting repealed?
Not long....
As we have seen on the forum recently, judges do not follow the law, cops don't follow the law, the gov't does not care about your rights. Only WE can take steps to insure that laws are force-ably repealed.
In my state, SB1160 was passed although a huge majority of people who contacted their legislators (about 85% from the records I obtained through FOIA requests) did not want the law passed. And next session they will be talking about mandatory mental health exams for every gun owner to be performed by state-sanctioned quacks.
At what point are gun owners going to do what is necessary? Yes its not nice to let a killer go free .. but if that is what is needed to insure our RKBA and our children's and their children's RKBA, its an easy choice.