Saturday, June 02, 2012

Second Amendment 13-year run-around case (Nordyke)

The Nordyke Second Amendment case has been bouncing around the Courts for nearly 13 years in a disgraceful fashion.  There was no final ruling as the county finally caved in.  Thirteen years wasted as the Ninth Circuit danced and weaved to try to avoid a pro-Second Amendment decision at any cost. This is even worse than "Justice delayed is  justice denied."  Justice was never achieved.  How many U.S. and county taxpayer dollars were wasted in this fiasco? Anyone who thinks that the Heller and McDonald decisions have secured respect for this portion of the Bill of Rights, is living in a dream world.  Both were 5-4 decisions.  Replacing one of the pro-Second Amendment majority members, with an anti-gun Obama justice, could mean the end of the Second Amendment as a meaningful right.

2 comments:

  1. Again, the second amendment doesn't grant but instead recognizes the people's unalienable individual right to keep and bear arms. It is not government's to restrict, only to harass.

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    Thanks for emphasizing that the Second Amendment only codifies a pre-existing right.

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