Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
In a fit of grandiose malfeasance, 10 members of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated their oaths of office last week by signing on to a majority ruling that strictly defied the Second Amendment; they will of course face no consequences for their actions. The ten statist imbeciles ruled that the AR-15 rifle, and 40 some other firearms arbitrarily declared “Assault Weapons” by the idiotic government of Maryland, are somehow not protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which doesn’t contain the words “but,” or “except for.”
“’Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war,’” Judge Robert King wrote for the court, adding that the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage,” the Associated Press reported.
Yes. You read that right. Yes, that was uttered by a man who somehow has the power to make rulings that the rest of us must follow despite the fact he’s clearly borderline-retarded and wholly ignorant of history and the constitution.
When the Second Amendment was written, all firearms were “weapons of war.” The explicit purpose of the Second Amendment is to give citizens the ability to shoot these bastards in the first place, and overthrowing a despotic government requires the tools of war, something the founders knew, that’s why they made sure U.S. citizens would always have the right to own the necessary weapons.
“Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who led the push for the law in 2013 as a state senator, said it’s ‘unthinkable that these weapons of war, weapons that caused the carnage in Newtown and in other communities across the country, would be protected by the Second Amendment,’” The AP quoted the imbecile as saying.
“Unthinkable that these weapons of war… would be protected by the Second Amendment,”? How much revisionist history are these bastards peddling here? Again, the Second Amendment arises from the founders’ distrust of a standing army and their correct contention that all humans have the inalienable right to be armed. Given that the “militia” was to be the replacement for a standing army, it’s pretty goddamned obvious that the authors of the constitution intended them to possess “weapons of war.”
Oh, and it bears some mentioning that the AR-15 rifle is issued to exactly zero militaries worldwide, making the 4th Circuit’s ruling even more hilariously absurd. The government already effectively banned most people from being able to afford actual “weapons of war” when it passed the completely unconstitutional National Firearms Act of 1934.
“Judge William Traxler issued a dissent. By concluding the Second Amendment doesn’t even apply, Traxler wrote, the majority ‘has gone to greater lengths than any other court to eviscerate the constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.’ He also wrote that the court did not apply a strict enough review on the constitutionality of the law. ‘For a law-abiding citizen who, for whatever reason, chooses to protect his home with a semi-automatic rifle instead of a semi-automatic handgun, Maryland’s law clearly imposes a significant burden on the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home, and it should at least be subject to strict scrutiny review before it is allowed to stand,’ Traxler wrote,” the AP quoted one of the few intelligent judges on the panel as saying.
Of course, in all objective reality, the right of Americans to own AR-15s or whatever the hell else kind of gun they want doesn’t come from the Second Amendment or any other part of the Constitution. That right belongs to all humans by virtue of being human. Governments love to pretend they and the granters and guarantors of rights, but they aren’t, never have been and can never be. All governments can do, and do in fact do, is restrict and oppress individual rights. Every human living in mainland China has the absolute, inalienable right to own whatever sort of gun they want, for example; the difference there is that their government oppresses that right, among others, completely.
All governments live in fear of their citizens, even the too-dumb-for-private-sector-work people that make up government are smart enough to do the basic math and realize the citizens have them outnumbered. Having a legal monopoly on violence isn’t enough to assuage the fears of governments; they also require a physical monopoly on violence. That’s why our government has been working non-stop to disarm us since June 21, 1788. That’s why all almost other governments have long ago effectively disarmed their serfs; they’re far easier to plunder that way.
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