Posted on 10/14/2020 9:59:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The tweets were pre-written, properly loaded, and ready to spit out like .50 cal rounds at enemy aircraft when Judge Amy Coney Barrett was asked about guns at day 2 of the Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
No doubt Democrats reached for the smelling salts when Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham asked the 7th U.S. Circuit judge and nominee to the Supreme Court if she owns a gun.
Stand back.
“When it comes to your personal views about this topic, do you own a gun?”
“We do own a gun.”
The point of the question was to allay fears that Barrett could evenhandedly consider cases such as gun rights and abortion regardless of her personal positions on them.
It was the only time, slight though it was, that Barrett seemed a little surprised by any question asked of her.
The reaction to her answer tells you all you need to know about why her family needs a gun to protect themselves. Hysteria gripped the professional pundit class.
Immediately, Barrett was called “extreme” by the usual anti-Second Amendment bunch allied with Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun groups. Everytown for Gun Safety spat, “Coney Barrett indicated that her approach to considering cases would rely on historical interpretations of the 2A — not public safety — which is the same extreme, unsuccessful legal framework the NRA has tried to use.” You know, judging U.S. federal law by that pesky Constitution.
Bloomberg’s other anti-gun group, Moms Demand Action, clutched their pearls — no, really, they wear pearls to look more like June Cleaver and like less rabid, wild-eyed anti-civil rights nutters — and labeled Barrett’s position on guns as being one in favor of people dying.
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None of their business
That makes me love her even MORE!
“A” gun?
You need at least three, pistol, rifle, shotgun.
“We do own a gun.”
We?
I assume her husband.
Um that’s what she’s supposed to do.
Yes, I agree.
But, she said she does. In fact someone named a .50 cal rifle after her. :-)
As opposed to Dems, who hire gunmen for protection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQn2ADZE1A
Amy’s Got a Gun!
How about “Yeah, and I own a chainsaw too!”
Most judges I know are always packing
If she lost 50 IQ points she’d still be the smartest person in the room.
She and her family have to know that accepting this position puts them all at risk of being targeted by a nut for the next 50 years
Criminals both private AND public sector...
That is why the Left hates RKBA. It's easier to load you onto a box car if you can't fight back.
At a bare minimum. Should be considered part of the US Citizen “starter kit”...
Good. Judges need to carry.
My great-uncle was a judge. He always carried because he lived out in the country, and you never knew when some low-life he sent to prison would get out and come looking for him.
Not long ago a judge in Steubenville, Ohio who carried shot and killed a perp who tried to ambush him.
Gun control is a steady hand and a beady eye.
The notorious ACB...
“Amy’s got a gun”
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