On Saturday the United States buried one of its most outspoken Supreme Court judges in decades, Justice Antonin Scalia. May he rest in peace.
Justice Scalia was the deciding ballot in a 2008 5-4 Supreme Court vote against gun control. In Scalia's opinion, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution had intended for individual citizens to be able to keep loaded firearms in their homes for protection. Four other judges evidently agreed. Justice Stevens, arguing for the opposing judges, felt that the Framers had intended only for the people's militia to bear arms, not for the people, themselves. And that the Framers would have been horrified if automatic weapons (machine guns) had existed and had been included as legitimate arms for self defense.
So, people, we have Justice Scalia to thank for a gun-crazed America in recent years.
Which brings me to my next point. That's why it's incredibly important that President Obama gets to nominate a liberal judge to the bench and why the United States Senate needs to confirm that nominee. Then, when a gun control case is next brought to the Court will it result in what the majority of Americans want: gun control. Something legislators, especially Republicans, who are beholden to their benefactors, are loath to implement.
Then, maybe, will we stop hearing about people harming other innocent people, like this deranged man did on Saturday in Michigan. The day Justice Scalia was being laid to rest.
May God have mercy on his soul.
Justice Scalia was the deciding ballot in a 2008 5-4 Supreme Court vote against gun control. In Scalia's opinion, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution had intended for individual citizens to be able to keep loaded firearms in their homes for protection. Four other judges evidently agreed. Justice Stevens, arguing for the opposing judges, felt that the Framers had intended only for the people's militia to bear arms, not for the people, themselves. And that the Framers would have been horrified if automatic weapons (machine guns) had existed and had been included as legitimate arms for self defense.
So, people, we have Justice Scalia to thank for a gun-crazed America in recent years.
Which brings me to my next point. That's why it's incredibly important that President Obama gets to nominate a liberal judge to the bench and why the United States Senate needs to confirm that nominee. Then, when a gun control case is next brought to the Court will it result in what the majority of Americans want: gun control. Something legislators, especially Republicans, who are beholden to their benefactors, are loath to implement.
Then, maybe, will we stop hearing about people harming other innocent people, like this deranged man did on Saturday in Michigan. The day Justice Scalia was being laid to rest. May God have mercy on his soul.
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