Amy Coney Barrett is a gun grabber. Don't be fooled.
As proof, I offer Rickey I. Kanter v. William P. Barr, a civil case decided in March of this year in the 7th Cirtcuit. The case concerns the plaintiff's right to possess a firearm after being convicted of a non-violent felony in Wisconsin. To be clear, Barrett supports Kanter's right to possess a firearm under the 2nd Amendment, in contradiction of the panel's negative ruling. I repeat: do not be fooled.
I refer you to her dissenting opinion, beginning on p27. But more specifically, paragraph 1 on p29, where Barrett states: >It is one thing to say that certain weapons or activities fall outside the scope of the right. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 627 (2008) (explaining that “the sorts of weapons protected were those ‘in common use at the time’” (citation omitted)); Ezell v. City of Chicago, 846 F.3d 888, 892 (7th Cir. 2017) (Ezell II) (“[I]f … the challenged law regulates activity falling outside the scope of the right as originally understood, then ‘the regulated activity is categorically unprotected, and the law is not subject to further Second Amendment review.’” (citation omitted)); Ezell v. City of Chicago, 651 F.3d 684, 702 (7th Cir. 2011) (Ezell I) (drawing an analogy between categories of speech, like obscenity, that fall outside the First Amendment and activities that fall outside the Second Amendment). It is another thing to say that certain people fall outside the Amendment’s scope.
paragraph 2, p32; >It does, however, give us a place to start. Heller’s reference endorses the proposition that the legislature can impose some categorical bans on the possession of firearms. See id. (“That some categorical limits are proper is part of the original meaning.”). Our task is to determine whether all felons— violent and nonviolent alike—comprise one such category.
paragraph 1, p54; >Thus, although the right protected by the Second Amendment is not unlimited, see Heller, 554 U.S. at 595, its limits are not defined by a general felon ban tied to a lack of virtue or good character.
Whenever Barrett has the chance to refer to elements of Heller comparatively, she uses it to implicitly affirm that its suggested limitations on the kinds of firearms protected under the 2nd Amendment are reasonable. This is not a person who fundamentally cares about 2A. This is not somebody we can count on to protect the right to keep and bear arms if appointed to SCOTUS.
Liam Gray
Yeah
Leo Reed
Ahahaha, this is rich. We have Dems calling for Kavanaugh's impeachment, and now shills bashing Amy Barrett. So, when is the official announcement of RBG's terminal diagnosis?
David Taylor
I was just thinking that.. They jumped back on Kav outta now where and then a few hours later i start seeing threads everywhere expressing a lot of "concern" over Barrett. Ginsberg or Sotomayor must behaving new issues.
Justin Flores
Are you kidding me? Read the text. I only bothered posting this because the entire rucking right seems to have blindly coalesced around this meme candidate as the inevitable replacement for RBG, with no consideration for how her confirmation might affect 2A. And that's because until this ruling she has had, as far as I can tell absolutely nothing to say about it. Then the first chance she gets as a judge, she goes to pains to characterize Heller's shortcomings on protections for firearms as reasonable.
And you're rich accusing me of shilling. When was the last time Jow Forums (or anybody else) trusted a woman in a position of power to take action favorable to gun owners? Why Barrett? Personally I'd rather see Thomas Hardiman, who is on record as supporting broad carry rights (and having a similar opinion to Barrett when it comes to non-violent felons owning firearms) nominated to SCOTUS. I guess he's too normal though.
I mean, none of this shit matters until those fucking codgers start hearing gun cases in the first place, they should have done more before the media got their collective menstruals about guns all over again because of some white dude who LARPs as a mexican.
Cameron Jenkins
Who the fuck cares so long as she's better than Ginsbitch?
Landon Parker
White women will be the absolute downfall of this nation.
