As blessed as we are with the addition of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, we lost a brilliant mind with the man he replaced.
The late Antonin Scalia’s ruling in the landmark 2008 District of Columbia vs. Heller case has been massively influential in setting the parameters for today’s gun control debate. Since it’s a topic back in the news once again following two mass public shootings, letting Scalia argue posthumously only seems appropriate.
For the Heller ruling, Scalia wrote a landmark opinion for the majority of the court, upholding an individual right to bear arms. His ruling infuriated liberals, as, thanks to him, the highest court in the land had decided that the phrasing of a “well regulated militia” in the Second Amendment doesn’t meant that people have a right to a gun only if they are part of such a group. Scalia’s ruling said that it is an individual right – period.
Scalia’s 60-page long ruling upholding an individual right to keep and bear arms is obviously a bit too long to quote in detail for an article – but Scalia himself did a good job of condensing down his argument during a 2012 interview on the show “Uncommon Knowledge.”
Frankly, the whole debate over gun control isn’t even that complicated. After all, anyone who can read is capable of reading the text of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which states:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
It’s not complicated. It shouldn’t be controversial. Americans have the right bear arms. It was a big reason for the Revolutionary War in the first place.
What is so gosh darned hard to understand about that?
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