The 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms and subsequent Supreme Court decisions affirming that individual right have been a bit of roadblock for democrats who want to ban guns. Luckily, one of the dumbest among them has come up with an ironclad argument. Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono says we can ban AR-15s because “who the heck knows what our Founding Fathers meant?”
The Senate Judiciary Committee held an abortion hearing today but for some reason Hirono was talking about guns:
“Originalism, they of the Justices who take that approach go all the way back our Founding Fathers and pretend that they know what our Founding Fathers meant when they drafted the Constitution. I use the word ‘pretend’ because who the heck should would know what our Founding Fathers meant? Is there any reference to AR-15 rifles in our Constitution? No,” said Hirono.
She answered her own question rather confidently and yet she’s still 100% wrong. That’s how dumb people roll. There is a reference to AR-15s in our Constitution. The 2nd Amendment states very clearly that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Arms are weapons and an AR-15 is a weapon, so it’s referenced and protected against government bans.
You know what is not referenced in the Constitution? Abortion. There is no mention of abortion, terminating pregnancies, or vital women’s health care. There is nothing even remotely related to a right to kill unborn babies anywhere in the entire document.
What makes this funny, or sad, is that this was a hearing called by the democrats to argue that abortion is a Constitutional right. Mazie Hirono claims the Constitution protects abortion, though there is no reference, and then says AR-15s can be banned even thought there is a reference. She is amazingly stupid.
While we’re helping Hirono with her basic civics lesson, a really good way to tell what our Founding Fathers meant is that they wrote down exactly what they meant. That’s literally what the Constitution is: our Founding Fathers’ intentions.
They decided that the federal government would be structured in three equal branches. They outlined what the powers of the government would be and set up a system of checks and balances to make sure the government couldn’t exceed their authority. Most of all, they prepared a detail list of the inalienable right of the people. There’s no grey area here, the Constitution means what it says.
If our Founding Fathers thought that the government should have an arms advantage over the people, they would have stated so but they didn’t. If they thought there were certain types of weapons the people shouldn’t be allowed to have, they would have stated so but they didn’t.
Our Founding Fathers also didn’t think that women should have a right to elective surgeries to terminate their pregnancies as a matter of convenience, which is why they didn’t include that in the Bill of Rights.
What this boils down to is Mazie Hirono is saying because she’s too stupid to understand simple things, AR-15s should be banned. I’m not a Constitutional scholar but this seems like a weak argument.
