The Hill Street Blahg

The SCOTUS has upheld the right for individuals to own and bear firearms. I must admit I’ve been somewhat apprehensive regarding this up and coming decision due to their recent flawed judicial rulings. This decision further illustrates the importance of the up and coming Presidential election and the importance of SCOTUS justice appointments. No doubt the ruling would have gone in favor of those who want to take our constitutional rights of owning a firearm away from us if  Barack Obama had an appointee on the bench.

What is really horrifying is the fact that 4 of these appointed justices were in dissent an voted to take away our basic freedom. This should have been a unanimous decision but these liberal justice are hell bent on rewriting our Constitution as they see fit. These are dangerous times we live in and the biggest threat we have to our country are the liberals who have hijacked the once great Democrat Party.

Writing for the majority, here’s what Justice Scalia had to say about today’s ruling.

…that an individual right to bear arms is supported by “the historical narrative” both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted. The Constitution does not permit “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home,” Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington’s requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, but left intact the licensing of guns. Scalia noted that the handgun is Americans’ preferred weapon of self-defense in part because “it can be pointed at a burglar with one hand while the other hand dials the police.”

Here’s what two of the dissenting justices had to say.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.” He said such evidence “is nowhere to be found.”

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, “In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas.”

This monumental ruling has to be a disappointment to all liberals and especially troubling for Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D). She not only favors ignoring the Constitution by ignoring our rights to bear firearms, she admittedly boasts how she wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine to silence talk radio. It amazes me how the left in this country, who constantly clamor for freedom and individual rights, are the very same people who want to take those freedoms away from us in order to suit their socialist agenda.

We can expect some very interesting comments from the left in the upcoming days regarding this decision. No doubt they are already scheming to skirt the decision with typical “liberal loopholes.” Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, who just recently praised the very same court for giving terrorist who want to kill us the very same rights law abiding Americans have, criticized today’s ruling by the court for allowing law abiding citizens to own and bear arms. This in itself I find to be most troublesome.

Liberals ignore the fact that the Constitution of the United States gives all law abiding citizens the right to own and bear firearms. On the flip side, they seem to read into the Constitution somewhere that  everyone has the right to free health care, killing babies, housing, education, and being taxed to death.