{"id":60718,"date":"2016-07-13T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=60718"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T23:59:08","slug":"justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60719\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\" title=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60719\" title=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge-400x279.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court in May. (Photo: AP\/Mike Groll)\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court in May. (Photo: AP\/Mike Groll)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">If there was any doubt in your mind about why the 2016 presidential election is a do or die moment for the Second Amendment, you ought to consider what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said recently about the high court\u2019s landmark <em>Heller<\/em> decision, which affirmed that the Second Amendment protects one\u2019s individual right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an interview with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/11\/us\/politics\/ruth-bader-ginsburg-no-fan-of-donald-trump-critiques-latest-term.html?ribbon-ad-idx=15&amp;rref=homepage&amp;module=Ribbon&amp;version=origin%C2%AEion=Header&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Home%20Page&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=0&amp;referer=https:\/\/thegunfeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\" title=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\">The New York Times<\/a>&#8221; Ginsburg said that <em>Heller<\/em> was \u201ca very bad decision,\u201d adding that the court may reconsider it\u2019s ruling whenever there is a challenge to a gun control law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So, what does that mean exactly?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Well, as I\u2019ve said in the past, gun-grabbers have long argued (and continue to argue) that the 2A is a right that was conferred only within the context of militia service, ergo if you or I did not belong to a civilian militia, we did not have a guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This ass-backward reading of the Second Amendment is very troublesome, but it prevailed for years, until <em>Heller<\/em>, and it allowed certain big cities and federal enclaves, e.g. D.C., to enact various draconian gun laws, including bans on handguns and concealed carry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But after <em>Heller<\/em>, after it was made clear that the Second Amendment was, indeed, an individual right, everything changed. It was a watershed moment. Gun prohibitions began to fall like dominos. State and municipal governments who wished to limit one\u2019s right had to reckon with the gravity of <em>Heller<\/em> (and <em>McDonald v. Chicago<\/em>, which extended the <em>Heller<\/em> decision to all the states in 2010). It didn\u2019t take long for anti-gunners to realize that they were now fighting a losing battle. The 2A was here to stay \u2014 at least as long as the complexion of the court remained 5-4 in favor of gun rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now that justice Scalia is gone, it\u2019s 4-4.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Four liberals, four conservatives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Four anti-gunners, four pro-gunners.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 And this is why this year&#8217;s election is so important, i<\/span>f Hillary Clinton takes office in 2016, she will undoubtedly appoint Scalia\u2019s replacement and maybe one or two other justices (Ginsburg is 83, Kennedy is 80 and Breyer is 77).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Clinton has gone on record saying that the Supreme Court \u201cgot it wrong,\u201d on the 2A, presumably with respect to <em>Heller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was proud when my husband took [the National Rifle Association] on, and we were able to ban assault weapons, but he had to put a sunset on so 10 years later. Of course [President George W.] Bush wouldn\u2019t agree to reinstate them,\u201d said Clinton at a private New York fundraiser back in the fall of 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to go after this,\u201d Clinton continued. \u201cAnd here again, the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If the court flips to a 5-4 or 6-3 anti-gun majority, the <em>Heller<\/em> decision is as good as gone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One\u2019s individual right to keep and bear arms is gone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All the pro-gun laws that <em>Heller<\/em>\u00a0paved the way for are gone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 For anti-gunners,\u00a0<\/span><em>Heller<\/em> is the key thread that could unravel the pro-gun movement and all the progress that\u2019s been made over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ginsburg is no fool.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She knows that if a Hillary-appointed court gets another whack at <em>Heller<\/em>, they\u2019ll change it to reflect an anti-gunners interpretation of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a 2013 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2013-09-18\/ginsburg-draws-connection-between-immigration-reform-fair-pay-women\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\" title=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\">PRI<\/a>, Ginsburg explained how she interprets the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia &#8230; Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She goes on to say that since there is no need for militia service, there is no need for the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Its function is to enable the young nation to have people who will fight for it to have weapons that those soldiers will own,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I view the Second Amendment as rooted in the time totally allied to the need to support a militia. So &#8230; the Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the video below you&#8217;ll see how Hillary tacitly endorses the Ginsburg perspective by refusing to acknowledge the Second Amendment as an individual right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bottom line: We&#8217;re in big trouble if Hillary gets elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(<em>H\/T:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guns.com\/2016\/07\/12\/heller-a-very-bad-decision-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\" title=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\"> Daniel Terrill<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Ginsburg said that Heller was \u201ca very bad decision,\u201d adding that the court may reconsider it\u2019s ruling whenever there is a challenge to a gun control law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":60719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,216,240],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ginsburg said that Heller was \u201ca very bad decision,\u201d adding that the court may reconsider it\u2019s ruling whenever there is a challenge to a gun control law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justice Ginsburg Laments Supreme Court Decision Affirming 2A as Individual Right\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Justice Ginsburg said that Heller was \u201ca very bad decision,\u201d adding that the court may reconsider it\u2019s ruling whenever there is a challenge to a gun control law.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/justice-ginsburg-laments-decision-affirming-2a-individual-right\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-13T14:01:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-19T23:59:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11ginsburg-articleLarge.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"418\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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