DEEPLY STUPID: Pundits Think Court “Expanded” Second Amendment

By Bob Owens

The political left is up in arms (as it were) because the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously slapped down a very poorly-reasoned Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that stun guns were not covered under the Second Amendment.

For those of you who don’t want to read the rather dry language of the courts, we can sum it up fairly easily.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court attempted to make a three-part claim in , Caetano v. Massachusetts that stun guns aren’t covered under the right to bear arms, because:

1. stun guns were not “in common use” in the 1790s when the Second Amendment was written
2. stun guns are “dangerous and unusual”
3. stun guns are not readily adaptable to military service use

It was nothing more or less than a high school sophomore’s poorly reasoned, “the Second Amendment only applies to muskets” argument, dressed up in legal terminology.

The unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court was, essentially, “you guys are idiots,” as they slapped down each point as being absurd.

This has caused no small degree of consternation for an anti-gun left, which is grounded in the exact same sophomoric argument:

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Source:: Bearing Arms