American Thinker: SCOTUS Gun Ruling Protects Individual Right

The 2022 term of the U.S. Supreme Court was a busy one.

Many issues were decided upon, some of which did not please some people. But the fact of the matter is, they acted to protect the individual rights of the people to keep and bear arms against government infringements.

The American Thinker posted an article by H. Sterling Burnett on the SCOTUS term with a focus on the Second Amendment.

It begins with:

During the final weeks of the Supreme Court of the United States' 2022 term, it issued some truly historic rulings.  In doing so, SCOTUS went a long way to re-establishing itself as a co-equal branch of government designed to uphold individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution against illegal government restrictions, while simultaneously defending separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government and between the federal government and the states.

Anyone who has a problem with SCOTUS's recent rulings, for instance President Joe Biden, simply has a problem with the fact that the United States is neither a dictatorship nor a direct democracy, but rather a constitutional republic.

The cases decided by the Court ranged from the president's power to set immigration policy to state and local government discrimination against religious liberty to limits on gun rights to the federally guaranteed right to an abortion, to limits on the administrative state's powers, among numerous other issues.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms.  The right was demanded by the framers and enshrined in the Constitution so that "we the people" could defend ourselves, our families, and our property against crime — which, at the time, included raids from Native American tribes with whom conflicts were common — and, as part of a state militia, against enemies both foreign and domestic.  

The Constitution, as originally designed, protected individuals' rights against incursion by only the federal government.

To read the full article, go here.