Gun Policy Shaken
The lamestream media told you:
Referring to the Parker case, which challenges Wash., D.C.’s total ban on gun possession at home, professor Jonathan Turley, a declared liberal, said, “D.C. politicians have put gun-control laws across the country at risk with a (Supreme) court more likely to uphold the rulings than to reverse them. It has also put the rest of us in the uncomfortable position of giving the right to gun ownership the same fair reading as more favored rights of free press or free speech.”
Writing for USA Today’s online opinion column, he refers to, “the part of the Bill of Rights that shall not be named by liberals. For more than 200 years, progressives and polite people have avoided acknowledging that following the rights of free speech, free exercise of religion and free assembly, there is ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms.’”
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
In an extraordinarily rare event, a plain and simple statement of the left’s distaste for the civil right to arms has been widely published. Turley refers to the case as D.C. v. Heller, using what many observers see as the D.C. lawyers’ effort to obscure the fact that Parker, originally named in the case, is a black woman living under difficult conditions, whose life has been threatened by warriors in the drug war near where she lives. Heller is a special police officer permitted to carry a handgun on duty as a guard at the Federal Judicial Center, but not at his home.
“Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda. Yet, two related cases could now force liberals into a crisis of conscience,” Turley says. “Principle is a terrible thing, because it demands not what is convenient but what is right. It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right…
“None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this amendment and admit that — here’s the really hard part — the NRA may have been right.”
Concluding, he says, “while we might not celebrate it, it is time that we recognize it.”
Why USA Today, which exhibits constant bias and hostility to the right to keep and bear arms, would publish such opinion from one of its own (Turley is on their board of contributors) is unclear — unless, by openly recognizing that RKBA exists, they can REALLY start regulating it now, especially is the Supreme Court really takes it out of the closet.
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