Justice Thomas says read the damn Constitution - in a few more words.
“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,'” Thomas wrote in the opinion. “The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.”
The the leftards completely whine and talk about all the inner city and mass gun deaths and ignore the rights of law abiding citizens who obviously do need a right to self-defense as set out in the 2A.
In his dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote: “Many states have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence… by passing laws that limit, in various ways, who may purchase, carry, or use firearms of different kinds. The Court today severely burdens [sort of why we have a Constitution] States’ efforts to do so.” He went on to list pages and pages of statistics on gun violence.
Justice Alito rebuked the court’s liberal justices in his scathing concurrence:
Why, for example, does the dissent think it is relevant to recount the mass shootings that have occurred in recent years? Does the dissent think that laws like New York’s prevent or deter such atrocities? Will a person bent on carrying out a mass shooting be stopped if he knows that it is illegal to carry a handgun outside the home? And how does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator. What is the relevance of statistics about the use of guns to commit suicide? See post, at 5–6. Does the dissent think that a lot of people who possess guns in their homes will be stopped or deterred from shooting themselves if they cannot lawfully take them outside?
So, Thomas can actually read the Constitution and is aware of the historical context of the 2A and the dazzler thinks he is a prop. The wise Latina votes for a dissent which ignores the Constitution and the historical context and is happy to restrict a key Constitutional right, make up a super Constitutional right which can't be restricted and would allow the limitation of the First Amendment so that its illegal to make a movie about PIPS.
When you need to lie to make your point, maybe you don't have a point. Imagine being an "elite" journalist at America's supposed paper of record and not know a damn thing about what you are writing about. Geezus.
So, Thomas can actually read the Constitution and is aware of the historical context of the 2A and the dazzler thinks he is a prop. The wise Latina votes for a dissent which ignores the Constitution and the historical context and is happy to restrict a key Constitutional right, make up a super Constitutional right which can't be restricted and would allow the limitation of the First Amendment so that its illegal to make a movie about PIPS.
It's only a "living, breathing" document when it suits the Libs to bend it. Otherwise.
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“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,'” Thomas wrote in the opinion. “The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.”
The the leftards completely whine and talk about all the inner city and mass gun deaths and ignore the rights of law abiding citizens who obviously do need a right to self-defense as set out in the 2A.
In his dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote: “Many states have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence… by passing laws that limit, in various ways, who may purchase, carry, or use firearms of different kinds. The Court today severely burdens [sort of why we have a Constitution] States’ efforts to do so.” He went on to list pages and pages of statistics on gun violence.
Justice Alito rebuked the court’s liberal justices in his scathing concurrence:
Why, for example, does the dissent think it is relevant to recount the mass shootings that have occurred in recent years? Does the dissent think that laws like New York’s prevent or deter such atrocities? Will a person bent on carrying out a mass shooting be stopped if he knows that it is illegal to carry a handgun outside the home? And how does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator. What is the relevance of statistics about the use of guns to commit suicide? See post, at 5–6. Does the dissent think that a lot of people who possess guns in their homes will be stopped or deterred from shooting themselves if they cannot lawfully take them outside?
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AS A FRIEND NOTES, YOU CAN TELL ALITO’S RESPONSE TO BREYER WAS EFFECTIVE BECAUSE THE NEW YORK TIMES IS MISREPRESENTING IT:
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