The 2nd Amendment protects our right to keep and bear arms. Democrats and the liberal media have been going after the “keep” part without much success so now they are focusing on the “bear” aspect of our right. According to MSNBC, bearing arms is a national security threat and should not be allowed.
The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case that involves New York’s refusal to issue concealed carry permits to qualified law-abiding gun owners. The law is clearly unconstitutional and will most likely be struck down, which has the radical leftists at MSNBC in a frenzy.
America’s infatuation with guns is a national security threat. And it appears poised to get even worse.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging a New York state law that requires a license to carry a concealed weapon. In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the plaintiffs argued the law violates the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms by permitting the state to issue licenses only to those who can show a particularized need.
A majority of the justices appeared sympathetic to the association’s argument, and we now await their decision on whether they will strike down the New York statute. The court could go even further and hold that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms without restriction.
Such a decision would be a grave mistake from a national security perspective.
There are currently 9 “may issue” states that don’t like letting responsible gun owners carry concealed weapons. That means there are 41 states who do respect the Constitution, so how is that a national security threat? If the vast majority of the states already issue concealed carry permits, adding a couple more isn’t going to be a monumental change.
Since this piece is from MSNBC, it’s not particularly fact-based. In any case, here’s why they argue that allowing people to exorcize their Constitutional rights is a national security threat:
Concealed carry of firearms allows for coordinated and deadly attack-planning because they enable the element of surprise. For this reason, handguns are the weapon of choice in most mass shootings. In 81 percent of mass shootings in the United States over the past 12 years, at least one handgun was used, according to an Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund analysis.
Oops. They kind of busted their own “assault weapons” narrative about mass shootings. Don’t worry, they came up with a new term to keep the bullshit flowing:
Legally obtained assault pistols were also used by terrorists in the 2015 attack on a San Bernardino, California, office building that killed 14 people and the 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49.
Assault pistols? Yup.
The basic thrust of this ridiculous argument is that people who don’t obey laws against murder do follow laws against carrying concealed weapons:
I’m personally not sure I have ever been to a college football game when security was not called upon at some point to remove an unruly fan. Now imagine a future in which the Supreme Court has permitted that fan to pull out his assault pistol in a stadium filled with thousands of fans. The old trope that “guns don’t kill, people do” ignores the fact that concealed assault weapons are far more lethal than a person without one.
So the only thing keeping people with the capacity for mass murder from shooting up a stadium is that they can’t legally acquire a concealed carry permit? What about the hundreds of sporting venues in the 41 “shall issue” states? Why aren’t they awash in blood?
This next one is even dumber:
One likely reason we did not see even more bloodshed at the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which led to the deaths of five people, are the restrictive gun laws in the District of Columbia. It appears that insurrectionists largely left their guns at home. Imagine the carnage that may have occurred if they had been free to bring firearms.
You see, these insurrectionists were going to overthrow the government and kill politicians but thankfully they had enough respect for DC’s tough gun laws and left their firearms at home. Why didn’t they at least bring nunchucks or something?
The biggest problem with MSNBC’s garbage is that they are trying to argue that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect our right to bear arms. That’s literally 50% of what the 2A guarantees: to keep and bear arms.
