Jacob Sullum: “The crucial difference between a pure democracy and a constitutional democracy like ours is that sometimes the majority does not decide.”
According to the Left-wing ideologue Justices on the SCOTUS, if “the people” of a state want to ban handguns, “the people” should be allowed to implement that desire through their elected representatives.
As Sullum points out the obvious, if that were the case, then why can’t “the people” of a state pass legislation that overrides…oh, I don’t know, the first amendment. Or how about the 21st amendment? Can states pass laws to authorize police to conduct warrantless searches at will?
Obviously not.
So why do these Justices believe that the states should be able to pass local legislation to deny state citizens their full rights to the second amendment?
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It is the right of the people to form a government and it is is the right of the people to defend it. To defend it, they may keep and bear arms as a militia. Their right to do so is the subject of the Second Amendment. – Leif Rakur
This is exactly why Triple Chin Kagan should go down by filibuster. Just like that bitch Sotomayor she is lying through her teeth about supporting 2A rights.
Sotomayor said in her confirmation hearings that she agreed that the 2nd amendment, as decided by Heller vs DC, protected an individual right to keep and bear arms in case of confrontation.
She then said in her McDonald dissent, that BECAUSE it was an individual right, it shouldn’t be incorporated against the states. No other fundamental individual right has ever been subjected to such twisted, baseless rational.
Now, I was never a Sotomayor fan, but I at least expected more intellectual honesty than that. What an embarrassment.
We can’t afford another Sotomayor. Kagan must not be confirmed.
But, but, but…she’s a wise Latina….
…and she has…empathy!
Free market acceptance of customer gun carry grows.