Sometimes people make good decisions, and sometimes they make bad decisions.
That’s true of everyone. It could be argued, though, that some people consistently make poor decisions more often than other people do.
You likely have a friend, acquaintance, or family member who “just can’t seem to catch a break,” who wouldn’t have any luck if it weren’t for their bad luck, or who has the most spectacular ability to screw things up.
We all know someone like that.
Now, that’s normally not too big of a deal as you can often simply avoid those people. But when those people somehow end up in positions of power with their terrible decision making “skills” intact, we all have to suffer through the fallout of their repeated bad decisions.
And those people have an appalling desire to be judges and politicians for some reason.
Well, a court which clearly (in my opinion) has difficulty making good decisions, at least when it comes to firearms, has afflicted people with their bad decisions. Zachary Stieber writes,
A Massachusetts ban on “assault-style firearms” is legal and constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on July 21.
The statute does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment because it is consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation in the country, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said.
This ruling is both outrageous and incredibly stupid.
The Second Amendment applies to “arms,” a general category of items that are, essentially, weapons. No restrictions listed. No specific models listed as to what is acceptable.
Just “arms,” meaning that anything that is a weapon of some sort is covered by the Second Amendment to be something that “shall not be infringed.”
But if you’re terrified by what looks scary (which, let’s be honest, is anti-2A activists’ definition of an “assault rifle”), then, you have to start making up ways to keep them away from you.
The tragic irony is that, by doing this, they don’t keep those weapons away from them. They simply keep people who would use those weapons to defend themselves or others from having those firearms handy when a criminal opens fire.
So, essentially, this court, on the heels of the Massachusetts legislature, made everyone in Massachusetts less safe.
Unbelievable.
