From The Hill, “The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to restrictions on carrying firearms outside the home, teeing up a potentially landmark dispute over the scope of the Second Amendment. … The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Robert Nash and Brandon Koch, who were denied concealed carry permits for self-defense because New York officials had determined that they had failed to show a ‘special need’ to carry weapons as required under state law. Their lawsuit argues that such restrictions on concealed carry permits violate the Second Amendment. If they prevail in front of the Supreme Court, it could upend concealed carry laws across the country.”
I quote Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark Heller case, “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. … Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.” Recall that this was the 2008 decision that settled the question of an individual owning and keeping firearms for personal protection in the home. Amazingly, in the two hundred-plus years of America’s existence, the question of an individual’s right to own a firearm had never explicitly been challenged and adjudicated until the Heller case. That essentially opened the flood gates for ownership because, of course, 21st-century humanity is supposed to live by 18th-century morays, especially regarding guns. So, if someone wanted an arsenal of high-capacity military-styled (looking but just as deadly) weapons in their home, then so be it! Just what America needs! However, the quote from Scalia above actually tempers the Second Amendment by recognizing that states may regulate gun rights, but that precedent is about to go right out the window with this new uber-conservative Court. Mark my words, morons.
One must ask, Why now? Such cases testing the right of any individual untrained moron to carry a gun anywhere have worked their way through the courts only to be denied certiorari before the Supreme Court up until now. So, Why now? Simple answer: It’s the uber-conservatives on the Court, morons. That’s all that matters. Conservative nuts have been waiting years for this moment, and now they will have their chance. The conservative justices will grant Second Amendment f***tards the blank check rights they have long desired despite what one of their own uber-conservative justices wrote previously in Heller. Clearly, these justices have singled that no precedent is sacred, especially those established through what they consider to be faulty legal reasoning, which is essentially all precedents they don’t like. So, get ready, morns. We have over a year before the decision on this case is delivered. A year for Democrats to do nothing and be weak and watch the conservative grip throughout the federal court system strangle democracy out of the life of the country. Trust me when I say SCOTUS will not think twice about exacerbating the gun violence in America by declaring everyone has a right to conceal carry in public. So, here we have it. This is the country we deserve because people are morons and just don’t care. There are not enough dead bodies caused by gun violence to change anything. Welcome to stupid America. All stupid all the m*****f***ing time! Get ready, morons. This is how democracy dies, and no one cares. Mark my words!