Chris Christie's Attorney General asks SCOTUS to abolish the Second Amendment

In New Jersey the Attorney General is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of, the governor. So when NJ AG John J. Hoffman speaks, it's with Chris Christie's full and enthusiastic support.

And John J. Hoffman doesn't want you to own a gun. Ever.

I must have missed that "special danger" clause in the Second Amendment. Perhaps one of the lurking liberals around here can point it out to me.

"New Jerseys Legislature, long ago, made the predictive judgment that widespread carrying of handguns in public would not be consistent with public safety because of the inherent danger it poses," Hoffman wrote, citing laws as early as the 1790s in restricting firearms in the Garden State.

We used to have laws restricting who could vote, not to mention laws which regulated the buying and selling of African Americans. Would AG Hoffman defend those laws by citing their colonial pedigree?

I should hope not.

Second Amendment rights are no less sacrosanct, regardless of prior misguided legislative tomfoolery. DC v. Heller made that fact abundently clear. Even the uber-liberal Ninth Circuit agrees, you have a Constitutional right to carry a gun.

Mr. Hoffman, and his boss, need to get in sync with the Constitution. Otherwise somebody might get the idea that Chris Christie wants to abolish the Second Amendment. And then I assure you, no gun-grabber RINO is ever gonna get the GOP nomination for president.

Posted at 12:22 by Chris Wysocki   [/nj_politics]   Comments | Perm Link |
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