Every time that I turn around, it seems like I hear another ridiculous statement from an anti-2A campaigner to push gun control. And every one of those statements comes down to the assumption and implication that guns are the problem, not evil people.
Which is just an irrational way of thinking. After all, when was the last time that you heard anyone say that we need to ban fists because some people are killed with fists?
Answer: You don’t, and it’s not just that they’re permanently attached to the body. It’s because we recognize that the tool isn’t the issue. The person’s evil intent is.
Yet, anti-2A activists’ (willful?) blindness about firearms is why they keep going back to using pseudo logic to try to justify California’s law limiting how often that you can buy firearms.
Fortunately for rational Americans, a court didn’t buy that pseudo logic or any other argument for violating the Second Amendment. Jill McLaughlin writes,
California’s “one-gun-a-month” law violates the Second Amendment, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 20, affirming a lower court’s decision.
“The panel held that California’s law is facially unconstitutional because the plain text of the Second Amendment protects the possession of multiple firearms and protects against meaningful constraints on the acquisition of firearms through purchase,” Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest wrote in the opinion.
California suggested in its argument that the Second Amendment guarantees only a right to possess a single firearm and that the plaintiffs’ rights were not infringed because they already have at least one firearm, according to Forrest.
“California is wrong,” Forrest wrote. “The Second Amendment protects the right of people to ‘keep and bear arms,’ plural.”
Judge Forrest is absolutely right with this ruling. The Second Amendment protects Americans rights to buy firearms, plural.
It’s this kind of “commonsense anti-gun-control” ruling that makes me want to go out and buy two guns to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July.
Because owning (multiple) firearms is as American as apple pie, and I have a few that I have my eye on already.
