The Shameless Supreme Court is Responsible for the Assassination
Attempt on Trump's Life
Former
Speaker of the House John Boehner, in his book On the House, reveals that there were serious feelers during the 1996
presidential campaign for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to run for
Vice-President with Senator Bob Dole. There is no law or provision in the
Constitution prohibiting Supreme Court Justices from running for political
office, but it would be a violation of the entire system of checks and balances
on which the United States' government is based. Once a Supreme Court
appointment, ostensibly for life, was seen as a stepping stone to national
elective office, its members and decisions would be scrutinized for their
political implications.
Had Justice Scalia's flirtation with
higher office been public knowledge at the time, both the controversial 5-4 Bush v. Gore decision stopping the vote
count in Florida and the 5-4 District of
Columbia v. Heller decision that Scalia wrote, which found an individual
right to have guns in the Constitution would have been seen as the political
decisions that they are. This is one reason for the extreme partisanship. When
unelected bodies with lifetime tenure make political decisions, people become
frustrated because they have no peaceful way to change the policy of the
government.
When the
Second Amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791, every gun in America was
handmade. They weighed about 10 pounds and had to be reloaded after each shot.
An expert marksman could fire only four rounds per minute. An AR-15, the gun
that shot former President Trump can fire 45 rounds per minute, or 400 per
minute with a bump stock.
When the Second Amendment was ratified, the
guns had an effective range of 100 yards and were dangerous to the shooter. The
AR-15 has an effective range of 500-600 yards, with a maximum range of 2,500
yards to 3,000 yards (a mile and a half). Tom Crooks was 200 yards to 300 yards
away from Trump when he nicked the president's ear, killed a fireman, and
wounded two others after firing eight bullets. It is probably only because
Crooks was a terrible shot and luck that spared Trump's life. The sharpshooters
accompanying Trump killed Crooks in three seconds, probably saving scores of
lives including the president's.
What does the Supreme Court say
about the difference between colonial-era weapons and contemporary firearms? "The
Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute
bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the
founding." This statement is absurd on its face. It
says that the founders extended protections to weapons it knows nothing about.
Secondly, bearable arms aren't mentioned in the Constitution, it is a wholly
new idea created by the Supreme Court by rearranging and misinterpreting the
text of the Second Amendment. For a full analysis of why the Second Amendment
requires the Regulation of Automatic Weapons see: ..\2022\second
amendment.htm
and How the Supreme
Court has turned the Constitution into a Religious Document
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Supreme Court has turned the Constitution into a Religious Text.htm