Right to bear arms protected by highest category of Liberty
Aug 12, 2019 4:58:16 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Aug 12, 2019 4:58:16 GMT -5
Damned right, now we just have to yank the Right out of the politician's hands...
Justice Thomas said it right when he chastised the Courts on their treatment of the Second Amendment...
Justice Thomas Says Your Second Amendment Rights are ‘Disfavored’
susanknowles.com/justice-thomas-says-your-second-amendment-rights-are-disfavored/
Supreme Court: Right to bear arms protected by highest category of liberty recognized by law
It's the Constitution that has the final say
By Andrew P. Napolitano, Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Last weekend’s mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have produced a flood of words about everything from gun control to mental illness to white nationalism. Most of those words have addressed the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a gift from the government. It isn’t.
The U.S. Supreme Court has twice ruled in the past 11 years that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual pre-political liberty. That is the highest category of liberty recognized in the law. It is akin to the freedoms of thought, speech and personality. That means that the court has recognized that the framers did not bestow this right upon us. Rather, they recognized its pre-existence as an extension of our natural human right to self-defense and they forbade government — state and federal — from infringing upon it.
It would be exquisitely unfair, profoundly unconstitutional and historically un-American for the rights of law-abiding folks — “surrender that rifle you own legally and use safely because some other folks have used that same type of weapon criminally” — to be impaired in the name of public safety.
It would also be irrational. A person willing to kill innocents and be killed by the police while doing so surely would have no qualms about violating a state or federal law that prohibited the general ownership of the weapon he was about to use.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/7/few-words-about-guns-and-personal-liberty/
It's the Constitution that has the final say
By Andrew P. Napolitano, Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Last weekend’s mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have produced a flood of words about everything from gun control to mental illness to white nationalism. Most of those words have addressed the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a gift from the government. It isn’t.
The U.S. Supreme Court has twice ruled in the past 11 years that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual pre-political liberty. That is the highest category of liberty recognized in the law. It is akin to the freedoms of thought, speech and personality. That means that the court has recognized that the framers did not bestow this right upon us. Rather, they recognized its pre-existence as an extension of our natural human right to self-defense and they forbade government — state and federal — from infringing upon it.
It would be exquisitely unfair, profoundly unconstitutional and historically un-American for the rights of law-abiding folks — “surrender that rifle you own legally and use safely because some other folks have used that same type of weapon criminally” — to be impaired in the name of public safety.
It would also be irrational. A person willing to kill innocents and be killed by the police while doing so surely would have no qualms about violating a state or federal law that prohibited the general ownership of the weapon he was about to use.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/7/few-words-about-guns-and-personal-liberty/
Justice Thomas said it right when he chastised the Courts on their treatment of the Second Amendment...
Justice Thomas Says Your Second Amendment Rights are ‘Disfavored’
susanknowles.com/justice-thomas-says-your-second-amendment-rights-are-disfavored/