Let freedom ring
Looks like we’re not down the drain just yet — the right upon which all others rely has been affirmed: “…what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” A-fargin’-men.
Update! Scalia (PDF link):
In interpreting this text, we are guided by the principle that “[t]he Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.”
WE look to this because it has always been understood that the Second Amendment, like the First and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right. The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of this right and declares only that it “shall not be infringed.” As we said in US v. Cruickshank, 92 U. S. 542, 553 (1876),”this is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it dependent in any manner upon that document for its existence. The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed…”
Stick that in your pipe and smoke on it awhile, gun-grabbing bastards.
Updated update! Asshole having a shit fit, via Bob Owens. Suck on it, gun-grabber swine.
Update to the updated update! You know Du Toit is gonna have plenty to say, and it’s going to be good.
Update, forsooth! Possibly the most important, powerful, useful words ever to flow from a SC Justice’s pen:
The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government — even the Third Branch of Government — the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.
Bold mine. I’ve been waiting my entire life to see that put down in black and white, authoritatively, from someone in a position to make it stick. It ought to be the most obvious, most elemental, most inarguable proposition in the world, the Prime Directive when it comes to understanding what the Constitution truly is. But it conflicts with almost every aspect of the liberal/socialist agenda, and so we’ve had to argue about it for years — with people for whom the Constitution is just another piece of paper to be subverted, bypassed, or scrapped according to the degree to which it hinders the final realization of their utopian fantasy. It’s what distinguishes the United States of America from every other nation in the world. And liberals hate it.
It is truly a great day for freedom, and for all who cherish it.
(Via Bill)
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