Today the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller upheld the plain meaning of the Second Amendment. But obviously it didn’t end there. The decision was 5-4 in favor of the amendment and it’s likely that the next president will be a liberal.
Anyway, as we know, liberals never stop litigating. So we can see that liberal groups will start moving cases through the court system in the hope that they will ultimately reach the Supreme Court when a couple more liberal justices have been appointed to the bench. Maybe then the Court will see the light and end the slaughter of guns in the streets.
Obviously that is a concern for conservatives. We’d like to think that the gun thing was put to bed, that the Second Amendment means what it says it means, that Americans are free-born people with the rights of a free people. That is: they have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that among these rights are the rights of self-defense.
But we know that liberals really don’t believe in rights for anyone but themselves and their clients. They are against the First Amendment if it means that conservatives can compete in the public square. They are against the Second Amendment if it means that conservatives can defend themselves from liberal-supported criminal predators.
But I am encouraged. I reckon that the attitude to take with would-be liberal challengers to District of Columbia v. Heller is: Go ahead, make my day.
If a liberal court were ever to overturn Heller then conservatives would have a “single issue” that would keep giving and giving for years.
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