Friday, March 28, 2025

SCOTUS Wrapped Around an Axle

 You have probably read by now that the Supreme Court has stabbed the Second Amendment and its supporters in the back with its recent ruling upholding the Biden era ATF ruling on so-called "ghost guns." John Woods has a post at the American Thinker mocking the SCOTUS ruling:

I have a suggestion for the nation about SCOTUS: the Supreme Court judges should be required to trade out their black robes for open-in-the-back hospital gowns and pink Crocs. The nine judges -- except for two -- seem incapable of keeping the lower court activist judges on the reservation. The SCOTUS judges should also be required to write all their opinions in red crayon, starting with their nonsensical decision on unserialized “ghost guns.” Looking at the Second Amendment with a powerful magnifying glass, I have yet to find or have overlooked the part that mentions serial numbers.

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SCOTUS should dress the part, since we seem to have a complete clown show in the Judiciary. Maybe the need to use their hands to keep their rosy red cheeks from peeking out of the hospital gown will prevent them from getting their hands on the people's rights. With their red crayon, they may want to circle and highlight the parts of the Second Amendment that mention age requirements or serial numbers.
I would like to see the return of the little red cartoon devil on the shoulders of each of these judges. He should have a baseball bat with the words “Read the amendment as it was written.” Every time these activist judges and SCOTUS add any words or additions to the amendment in the Bill of Rights, the little devil should whomp them up aside the head and scream, "Read it as it was written, Stupid!" in their ear.

I can't help but think that Woods may be onto something here. After all, where the weapon was made, or by whom, should have no bearing on a case of an unlawful shooting. In fact, serial numbers are frankly for the use of the manufacturer who needs to know when and to whom a weapon was sold for warrantee reasons. As Mike McDaniel has noted many times, neither knowing the serial number nor trace data has never solved a murder case. What has is standard police procedures. SCOTUS has apparently gotten wrapped around an axle that was spun up by anti-gun lawyers and they overlooked common sense.

2 comments:

  1. Since it was Biden era ATF that came up with the rule, it seems like the Trump era ATF could just change those criminal rules back to where they belong.
    I had a lot of hope for the 2nd amendment under Trump, and even though I totally understand that it is still very early in his administration, I had hoped to see more action on our freedoms.
    Let's hope and pray that things will become better the further along we go. I understand that Trump faces a lot of ridiculous push back by the liberals on all fronts, and he has to fight against them on just about everything he does. But we can only wait for the 2nd amendment gets it's support and don't let our congresscritters get away with any further infringement on all of our rights, not just the 2nd amendment.

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  2. Pigpen51, I agree that Trump or Patel for that matter could simply rescind the rule. It is too bad it got before the Court, and too bad they did not see it for what it was. In any case, thanks for commenting.
    Wade

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