If the last Congress were true to its “principles,” it would have passed legislation specifically allowing the public to bring firearms into every courtroom (including the Supreme Court) and every meeting of the executive or legislative branches in each state and the federal government.
Let them play by the rules they set for others. Let them live in constant fear, consoled only by the ridiculous notion that the “good guys” will protect us from the “bad guys.” Let them be visited by the tragedies we see played out in almost every other arena.
A “second-class right,” Justice Thomas? Then why are you not speaking out forcefully to allow the public to bring guns into the courthouse in which you sit?
From a letter to the Editor, New York Times, in reference to an article by Linda Greenhouse on the shift of the Supreme Court on Second Amendment rights.
Clarence Thomas has, of late, provocatively insisted that the court is treating the second amendment like a “second-class right”. That’s rhetorically clever and plays to the Republican base: how dare you impede, in the slightest, my passionate desire to own a produced designed to kill people? Well, actually, to defend my family. Yes, that’s it. My family.
This is really a brilliant piece of logic. If the right to buy and own guns should be protected because of it’s sacred contribution to the safety of all Americans, why can’t you bring those guns into a courtroom, or Congress, or City Hall? Why don’t politicians want to be safe?
Because they know this is a lie. They know it in their bones. They know that a courtroom full of guns is not safer– it is far more dangerous– to everybody. So they make an exception for themselves that they refuse to grant to students, church-goers, concert-goers, and anyone else who does not believe that guns make you safe. We are going to make sure there are lots and lots and lots of guns out there, including assault rifles, because, we have no choice: the Constitution guarantee’s this right.
But in my court room? Are you nuts? In my council chamber? Never. Into Congress? Not in a million years.
You think I’d want anyone to be able to bring guns into here, as if it was a church, or a school, or a concert hall? Never.
They are liars.