Judge Sharon Coleman Johnson's Rule Distracts form the Real Issue

David Codrea, of the War on Guns website has a very well thought out article today at Firearms News entitled Right to Arms for Illegal Aliens a Red Herring to Distract from Real Issue. Codrea is writing about the recent ruling by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, an Obama appointee to dismiss the gun possession charge under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) against illegal alien Carbjal-Flores. Codrea rightly notes that the ruling has thrown the 2nd Amendment community into turmoil, with some saying he should not be allowed to have a gun, and others noting that if the right of arms is in fact granted by our creator, then Carbjal-Flores cannot be held under this law. As I noted before, Johnson is not being serious here, but attempting to show up the hypocrisy of the other side. But the 2A community is not the one being hypocritical, now, is it?

The “enforce exiting gun laws” faction of gun owners are the loudest objectors, evidently unaware that their position is ideologically no different than a Revolutionary era colonial demanding to enforce exiting Intolerable Acts. The hard truths no one wants to admit are that “gun control” laws don’t work – whether they’re favored by Everytown or by NRA, and that anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian.

It’s not a matter of “Should felons have guns?” That’s the wrong question. Try “Should those proven violent and predatory have access to the rest of us?”

Ditto with “Should illegal aliens have guns?”

Of course, all human beings are entitled to unalienable rights. And the Supreme Court has acknowledged, in the Heller case, and earlier, in Cruikshank, “The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it ‘shall not be infringed.’ As we said in United States v. Cruikshank… ‘[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.’”

But again, it’s the wrong question. What should be asked is “Why is a known illegal alien allowed to remain in the United States instead of being deported?”

Gentle readers will want to read the whole article.