More on the Supreme Court Upholding the Second Amendment

This is an editorial that appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader and it sums up my exact feelings on the recent Supreme Court decision that an individual has the right to keep and bear arms, only it does so much better than I was able to accomplish.

 Here are some excerpts followed by my comments:

FINALLY, we can put to rest the canard that the 2nd Amendment protects the government’s right to arm itself rather than the people’s right to defend themselves from, among other things, the government.

 That opening paragraph really says all that needs to be said. The gun control advocates would have you believe that the second amendment applies to only the militia. An Army. A government army. They would have you believe that while all other rights in the bill of rights guarantees the rights of the people that for some reason the government would find it necessary to protect it’s own right to bear arms, and not the people’s. When you think about it that way the whole anti-gun crowd sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it?

Frighteningly, four members of the U.S. Supreme Court sided with this anti-gun spin.

 That is the scary part of this whole ruling, the closeness of the vote. We were one vote away from losing the second amendment. The editorial continues:

Two Supreme Court justices who voted to nullify the 2nd Amendment — John Paul Stevens, age 88, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, age 75 — are almost certain to be replaced by the next President. Justice Anthony Kennedy turns 72 next month and Justice Stephen Breyer turns 70 in August.

The next President will replace at least one, probably two, and possibly four Supreme Court justices.

 The editorial then goes on to claim that this is the reason to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama, and if this were any other Republican nominee I would agree. But because of McCain’s love for crossing the aisle I don’t trust him to actually nominate conservative judges. Even if he did he will be facing a huge minority in the house and senate and will have to do what he does best and compromise his principles. He will nominate judges that he knows will win approval of the Democrat majority in the house and senate. As will Barack Obama. There is no difference in the end game even on this issue from both of the candidates.