{"id":89939,"date":"2023-02-09T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89939"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:15:15","slug":"89939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89939","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat Conniptions Continue in Wake of SCOTUS Second Amendment Decision<\/a><\/p>\n

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary I keep by my desk defines \u201cconniption\u201d as \u201ca fit of rage or hysterics.\u201d To illustrate more clearly what a \u201cconniption\u201d means in modern parlance, a picture of Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California, should accompany the definition. It is he and his anti-Second Amendment colleagues in other deep blue states who are having recurring conniptions over the June 2022 Supreme Court decision commonly known as\u00a0Bruen<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

That decision, which arose factually in New York but applies to the entire country, declared that the Second Amendment means what it says, and that it is to be interpreted according to the historical context in which it was written and ratified in the late 18th Century.<\/p>\n

What exactly is it that sends these public officials, who regularly profess devotion to other civil liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, up the wall?<\/p>\n

At its core, it\u2019s all about\u00a0control.<\/p>\n

Under the century-old New York \u201cSullivan Act\u201d law that the six-member\u00a0Bruen<\/em>\u00a0majority struck down last June, local officials had enjoyed virtually absolute control to decide which citizens were deemed worthy to be permitted to carry a concealed firearm for self-defense. That power was deemed \u201carbitrary\u201d by the High Court\u2019s majority and therefore fatally defective as a limitation on an individual\u2019s fundamental right to \u201ckeep and bear arms\u201d expressly guaranteed by the Second Amendment against being thus \u201cinfringed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For decades California, New Jersey, Hawaii, and a handful of other firearms-averse states had permitted officials to exercise similar control over citizens within their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Bruen<\/em> swept away such noxious power and established \u2013 finally \u2013 what should have been obvious to public officials all along; namely, that playing word games, such as forcing a citizen to show \u201cproper cause\u201d and a \u201cspecial need\u201d before being allowed to exercise a fundamental right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, is not what our Founders intended and is not consistent with any reasoned and historically premised interpretation of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

In clear defiance of the Supreme Court\u2019s Bruen<\/em>\u00a0decision, New York\u2019s legislature quickly passed, and Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that did precisely what the Supreme Court just days before had ruled unconstitutional. This left virtually every New Yorker desiring to be able to carry a firearm for self-defense still unable to do so.<\/p>\n

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Even more irksome to the likes of Newsom and other anti-gun Democrat governors and legislators, is the fact that the language and reasoning in\u00a0Bruen<\/em>\u00a0provide valid arguments with which to successfully challenge other restrictive gun control laws, such as bans on high-capacity magazines and so-called \u201cassault rifles.\u201d Myriad challenges to these gun control laws are pending in courts in California and across the country.<\/p>\n

Defending such restrictive laws against these constitutional challenges perfectly reflects Newsom\u2019s well-known disdain for judicial decisions not comporting with his liberal philosophy.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, most federal judges have a sounder view of judicial precedent and understand that when the United States Supreme Court speaks \u2013 especially when, as in\u00a0Bruen<\/em>, it does so clearly and pointedly \u2013 political and personal views must take a backseat to the Court\u2019s decisions. Interestingly, even some Democrats in the California legislature appear to understand this.<\/p>\n

Last Fall, for example, Newsom and his cohorts in the state legislature attempted to pass legislation similar to New York\u2019s defiant response to\u00a0Bruen<\/em>, that would continue to make it virtually impossible for Californians to obtain carry permits. In what must have been a shock to Newsom, a handful of \u201cmoderate\u201d Democrat members joined with the GOP minority and defeated the legislation \u2013\u00a0forcing the editorial board of the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0to blast such turncoats<\/a>\u00a0and join the ongoing, anti-Bruen<\/em>\u00a0conniption sweeping across blue states.<\/p>\n

There also are blue-city sheriffs, such as\u00a0San Francisco\u2019s Paul Miyamoto, who may not like the\u00a0Bruen<\/em>\u00a0decision but understand their oaths of office<\/a>\u00a0require them to follow it, and now are approving carry permits that previously were routinely denied.<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0Bruen<\/em>, law-abiding citizens, including those in Democrat-controlled states like\u00a0Maryland, are eagerly lining up by the tens of thousands to obtain formerly unattainable carry permits<\/a>. These Americans exhibit no conniption, simply a yearning to freely exercise a God-given and constitutionally guaranteed right to self-defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrat Conniptions Continue in Wake of SCOTUS Second Amendment Decision The Concise Oxford English Dictionary I keep by my desk defines \u201cconniption\u201d as \u201ca fit of rage or hysterics.\u201d To illustrate more clearly what a \u201cconniption\u201d means in modern parlance, a picture of Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California, should accompany the definition. It … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89940,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89939\/revisions\/89940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}