Posted on 05/24/2021 6:07:20 AM PDT by rktman
You could tell the mayor was clearly flabbergasted.
“We’ve worked so hard to get guns out of the hands…”
A flummoxed Mayor Bill DeBlasio appeared to have indigestion at the idea that he could somehow be overruled on his narrow view of guns.
The mayor of New York was more or less going full 'woke' on the suggestion that the Supreme Court of the United States had announced that it will proceed on hearing a case that amongst other outcomes could produce a ruling on the constitutional right of every law-abiding American to own and carry a gun.
Of course, the Constitution already guarantees those two specific ideas. But Americans have been inundated with political agendas that would remove such rights by state and local politicians for some time.
It was the Heller decision that reaffirmed the constitutional language reasserting that the second amendment does not refer to government, militias, or collectives, but rather the individual. Many have wondered how long it would take for the Supreme Court to hear a challenge for the logical next step: the right to “bear” the arms that Heller established their right to “keep.”
The mayor went on to decry that SCOTUS was trying to “put guns back into the hands” of New Yorkers.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
“We’ve worked so hard to get guns out of the hands…”
of law abiding citizens
Don’t worry, De Blazeo (SP?), Roberts will side with the libs.
You really need to read the 1982 Senate report on the 2nd Amendment. I have a paper copy.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).
“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”
18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).
“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
The rule of law is an obstacle for the left which they are not finding to be insurmountable. Biden will be appointing lots of judges who will vote their political beliefs and not the law.
Awesome. Look at all the wisdom represented in those cases, starting with the case on our 102nd birthday. Thank you for posting that.
The 2n Amendment does not restrict keeping and bearing arms to law abiding citizens. Again, as conservatives like to say, It is the person who commits the crime, not he gun. And when have laws against possession kept a criminal from possessing? “The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That looks to be absolute.
Exactly. The author points out how the mayor has done things that ensures that criminals are not being punished or disarmed.
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