Fellow Conservative,
It actually happened. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled just yesterday that Americans have no constitutional right to carry a firearm outside their home for self-defense.
In 2008, a gun owner in Washington DC challenged the district’s de facto ban on handgun ownership. At the time, a handgun kept in the home had to be either disassembled or locked up at all times.
The Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to own a functional handgun for self-defense. In the earlier part of the decision, the late Justice Antonin Scalia went through the definitions of phrases within the constitutional amendment.
He had to dissect the amendment literally because for some reason, liberals are unable to decipher the phrase, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“Arms,” he wrote, included any firearm that would be issued to infantrymen. The word “keep” was self-explanatory as well. To “keep” an arm is to own one.
When the decision got to the concept of “bearing arms,” the definition was equally simple. To bear an arm is to carry a weapon. Period.
In yesterday’s ruling, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a radical 7-4 ruling upholding not only California’s ban on concealed carry, but also open carry.
They waited until after Justice Scalia passed away and now they have set us down the path towards overturning and dismantling the 2nd Amendment!
With the 9th Circuit’s backwards ruling, that means that citizens living within the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and now 9th Circuits have had their right to self-defense outside the home completely eliminated.
So you don’t have to go and search for a map of the states under each circuit court, here’s the list:
California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
There are 138,417,201 people who live in those states. This accounts for 43.8% of the entire United States population.
According to these unelected judges, the Second Amendment no longer exists for almost 44% of Americans.
If Justice Scalia were alive, we could defeat this in the courts. But he is no longer with us.
The Supreme Court, right now, has four Justices who believe that individuals have a right to own weapons and four Justices that previously voted to extend Second Amendment rights only to members of the National Guard.
If the Supreme Court agrees to hear this case, it will likely end in a 4-4 tie, which will cement the 9th Circuit’s ruling. That is assuming that Justice Kennedy sides with the Conservative wing of the court. It’s entirely possible he could side with the liberals.
And here’s the thing… it only takes 4 Supreme Court Justices to vote and choose to hear a case. So our best-case scenario is a 4-4 split that leaves the California ruling in place. Our worst-case scenario is that Justice Kennedy sides with the liberals and the right to bear arms is eliminated nationwide!
We cannot win this through the courts. There are simply too many liberal, activist judges on the bench.
Getting Congress to intervene is truly our last hope and it all rests with you.
The question you need to ask yourself is this: are you prepared to let a handful of unelected activist judges eliminate your right to self-defense outside the home?
Whether you are one of the 138.4 million people who live in these affected states or not, you won’t be able to hide from this. Either you stand and fight right now or this ruling will go nationwide!
I carry a concealed weapon every single day, without fail. With all of the craziness in the world, it’s just not worth venturing out unarmed. I, like many other Americans, refuse to be just another statistic.
Look at what just happened in Tel Aviv, Israel. People were sitting in a café, simply minding their own business, and two terrorists came in and started opening fire. Like always, the killing stopped when the good guys with the guns arrived.
Our Founders enshrined the right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution to ensure that Americans would always be able to defend themselves, inside their homes and out.
Meanwhile, one of the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee members just admitted that the DNC’s position is that no one should own a gun.
The right to self-defense is being dismantled right now before your eyes.
Once again, the liberals are expecting you to just roll over and take it. They want you to just accept your fate.
I’m calling on you to fight back.
Sincerely,
Joe Otto
Conservative Daily
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