A deputy U.S. captain used a rifle to prevent a burglary attempt in Washington, D.C., while guarding the house of infamously anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Eighteen-year-old Kentrell Flowers reportedly pulled a gun on one of the two assistant U. S. commanders parked outside of Sotomayor’s house around 1: 15 a. m., The New York Post reported. At the time of the incident, Sotomayor reportedly was n’t at home.
One captain reportedly drew a rifle and shot the suspect, who was later treated at a clinic for non-life-threatening injury, according to the report. Plants has been charged with “armed burglary, carrying a handgun without a permit, and possession of a large potential magazine”, the New York Post reported.
Importantly, she claimed at the nomination hearing that she had accepted the Supreme Court’s earlier ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller regarding the individual right to keep and bear arms.
” I understand … how important the right to bear arms is to many, some Americans”, Sotomayor testified. ” And I have friends who hunt. I fully grasp the Supreme Court’s recognition of personal rights.
As with most left-wing tricks, again in workplace her melody changed. Sotomayor supported the Next Amendment’s claim that it does not protect the right to self-defense in McDonald v. Chicago in 2010.
” The carrying of arms for]self-defense ] often puts others ‘ lives at risk”, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the minority. In essence, the Framers did never draft the Second Amendment to safeguard the individual right to military self-defense.
However, as my colleague David Harsanyi put it, “historic history has not supported this contention… The idea of personal ownership of firearms was but unmistakable and pervasive in colonial times — and beyond — that Americans felt no need to question its existence more than they did the right to consume water or breathe the air.”
Sotomayor, writing a concurring judgment in United States v. Rahimi, all but endorsed Parliamentary efforts to eradicate legal privileges based off political, brief desires.
The Second Amendment, in my opinion, allows legislators to “take into account the serious issues posed by gun murder” by asking their predecessors ‘ thoughts on the subject at the time of the establishment or during the Reconstruction, as well as by listening to other constituents and creating novel, appropriately customized solutions.
In the landmark Bruen decision of 2022, Sotomayor lamented that essentially political leaders may be hampered in their efforts to evict Americans from their basic right to keep and bear arms.
” Many States have tried to address some of the problems of gun violence only described by passing legislation that control, in various ways, who may purchase, hold, or use weapon of different types”, Breyer wrote for the majority. The Court “pulls the burden” on States ‘ efforts today.
” In my view, when courts interpret the Second Amendment, it is constitutionally proper, indeed often necessary, for them to consider the serious dangers and consequences of gun violence that lead States to regulate firearms”, the dissent continued.
The “gun violence” referred to is the same “gun violence” that could have killed Sotomayor’s bodyguard. Washington, D. C., has put in regulations in-part hoping to curb gun violence, but they’ve been largely ineffective.
It’s why former Trump administration official Mike Gill was killed in a similar carjacking incident in the nation’s capital in January, despite not having as much armed security as Sotomayor.
Despite liberals ‘ naivety, criminals do n’t follow laws. But Sotomayor lacks that understanding.
Ordinary Americans would be unprotected from teen thugs who are willing to use deadly force if Sotomayor had her way, while elites like her can have peace in knowing that men with guns are protecting them, whether or not they are even at home.
Sotomayor’s life is not any more valuable than Mike Gill’s, the U. S. marshal’s, or even mine. Unfortunately, she’s just itching for the opportunity to cement that hierarchy because she’ll never have to worry.
Brianna Lyman is a correspondent for The Federalist on elections.
