The Supreme Court Seems on the Right Track

 Ann Coulter, over at Townhall.com tells us What Liberals Get Wrong About the Second Amendment. And one of the things they get wrong is the so called "musket" argument.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Democrat) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Democrat) both think it's quite brilliant to claim that, if we care what the framers of the Constitution meant, then the Second Amendment applies only to "muskets"!

In The New York Times, a couple of professors (Democrats, but you knew that) asked: "Is a modern AR-15-style rifle relevantly similar to a Colonial musket? In what ways?" They liked their argument so much, the op-ed was titled, "A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket 'Analogous' to an AR-15?"

[Frantically waving my hand]: Yes, professors, it's exactly analogous.

The Second Amendment does not refer to "muskets"; it refers to "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." "Bear" means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people. Just as the musket was once carried by our military, the AR-15 is a handheld arm (technically, the less powerful version of the automatic M-16) carried by our military today. As soon as the U.S. military goes back to muskets, then muskets it is!

One bone I have to pick with Ms. Coulter is that she really should properly label the people trying so hard to grab the guns.  These people are not "liberals;" they are Leftists. Leftists are Marxists of one stripe or another, whether Communist, Fascist, Progressive, or any of the other names they use for themselves to try to hide the fact that they are Leftists who desire to rule as dictators.  Power is their one and only goal.

Leftists pretend that the Second Amendment stayed static in the year 1791, while every other provision of the Constitution advanced with the advance of technology.  We are to believe that only muskets were envisioned, yet the same Founders could foresee the internet, modern presses, and so forth.  Clearly, this is illogical, and even Leftists know it.

In truth, if we were following the Constitution, everyone who wants one would have a select fire M4 carbine rifle and a supply of 5.56 NATO rounds just in case of a need to defend the homeland.  Oh, and they would qualify with them periodically as part of the militia.

Menwhile, Ted Noel tells us that It's Really Time for SCOTUS to Put Restrictive Gun Laws to Bed over at the American Thinker He cites a number of laws around the country where courts have used one or more of the so-called "balancing" tests to uphold what are really unconstitutional laws.

With Bruen, SCOTUS made it clear that citizens in all fifty states must be permitted to carry guns. But in its zeal to make narrow rulings, the Court just made more work for itself. The Court overruled New York’s “may issue” carry permit regime, to which the state simply said, “Up yours!” and passed a new law that basically made the entire state a “sensitive area” in which guns cannot be carried.

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But that’s not the only work the Court left for itself. Lower Courts have twisted themselves into an ouroboros to avoid the plain language of Heller and MacDonald. With Bruen adding to the library of Second Amendment decisions, SCOTUS sent several cases back to lower courts for reconsideration.

These include Young v. Hawaii, Duncan v. Bonta in California, and of course, the latest monstrosity in New York. The problem is that in these rulings, the courts almost always find that the governmen'ts interests outway the indivicual's interests. But this is just made up nonsense created by the courts to justify a predetermined outcome. As Justice Thomas noted, such “interest balancing” tests violate the basic premise that “when the Second Amendment‘s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct.”

The conservatives on the Supreme Court have it right. The Constitution is fairly clear, because that was the intent of the Founders. Leftists, in trying to make the Bill of Rights meaningless, keep trying to obscure the facts, to smear the truth with a mountain of lies, misdirections, and nonsequiters. Such is the current claims that the Founders only intended to protect people's right to keep and bear muskets.

The conservatives on the Supreme Court are on the right track. I hope to see more of these kinds of rulings. It is high time we returned to governing this great nation according to the actual Constitution.