But in the recently decided case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, Sotomayor ignored the "settled law" of the Heller decision and signed a dissenting opinion that declared, "I can find nothing in the Second Amendment's text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as 'fundamental' insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes."
Supreme Court Affirms Racist Origins Of Gun Control
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Supreme Court affirms racist origins of Gun Control
By Frances Rice Tuesday, June 29, 2010
How ironic that, on the day former exalted cyclop of the Ku Klux Klan
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd died, the US Supreme Court ruled
unconstitutional the gun control laws that are embedded firmly in the
Democratic Party's racist roots.
At the heart of the McDonald v. City of Chicago case that is posted on
the US Supreme Count's Internet site is the Court's decision that the
Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution - that was pushed through by
Republicans after the Civil War, led by Republican Senator Charles
Sumner - is the anchor that binds state and local governments to the
Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self defense.
Otis McDonald, one of the plaintiffs, is a black man who just wanted to
have the right to protect himself from criminals who terrorized him in
his home with frequent break-ins. The only current black US Supreme
Court member, Justice Clarence Thomas who was appointed by Republican
President George H. W. Bush, courageously delved into the racist origins
of gun control laws to demonstrate that such laws have no place in a
nation of free people. The liberal justices on the Court, including
Justice Sonia Sotomayor who was appointed last year by Democrat
President Barack Obama, voted against the black plaintiff and his fellow
Chicago residents.
The McDonald case provides a bird eye's view of the history of
Democratic Party racism. Referenced in the Court's opinion is the 1856
Republican Party Platform that includes language about the "right of the
people to keep and bear arms." A key source used by the Court is the
book "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877" by Dr.
Eric Foner whose biography can be found on the Internet.
Forner's book reveals how, before the Civil War ended, Southern States
enacted "Slave Codes" that prohibited slaves from owning firearms.
After Republican President Abraham Lincoln issued the 1863 Emancipation
Proclamation that freed slaves in the rebelling States, and after
Republicans pushed through the Thirteenth Amendment freeing all the
remaining slaves, Democrats in the South persisted in keeping the newly
freed slaves from owning the means to protect themselves - guns.
The Supreme Court in the McDonald decision wrote about how, after the
Civil War, the Southern States started passing laws, called "Black
Codes", to systematically disarm blacks, specifically the over 180,000
blacks who returned to the States of the old Confederacy after serving
in the Union Army. In response to the "Black Codes," the
Republican-controlled Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. But
the Democrats would not be deterred. Very soon after the 1866 law was
enacted, Alabama, followed by other Southern States, again passed "Black
Codes" that made it illegal for blacks to own firearms.
Cited by the Court in the McDonald case, as an example of such a
discriminatory code, is the Mississippi law that stated: "no freedman,
free negro or mulatto, not in the military service of the United States
government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or
her county, shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any
ammunition, dirk or bowie knife." In one Southern town, according to
the Supreme Court, the marshal confiscated the weapons of the returning
black Union soldiers and, at every opportunity, promptly shot black
people.
The Court's McDonald decision records that: "Throughout the South, armed
parties, often consisting of ex-Confederate soldiers serving in the
state militias, forcibly took firearms from newly freed slaves". In his
book about Reconstruction, Dr. Foner revealed that in 1866, the Ku Klux
Klan was started as a Tennessee social club. The Klan then became a
military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party and spread
into other Southern States, launching a "reign of terror" against
Republican leaders, black and white. The Klan would "order the colored
men to give up their arms; saying that everybody would be Kukluxed in
whose house fire-arms were found".
In the McDonald decision, the Court pointed out how the
Republican-controlled Congress, while debating the Fourteenth Amendment,
referred to the right to keep and bear arms as a fundamental right
deserving of protection. Republican Senator Samuel Pomeroy described
three "indispensable" "safeguards of liberty under our form of
Government", one of which was the right to keep and bear arms. Pomeroy
said: "Every man . . . should have the right to bear arms for the
defense of himself and family and his homestead. And if the cabin door
of the freedman is broken open and the intruder enters for purposes as
vile as were known to slavery, then should a well-loaded musket be in
the hand of the occupant to send the polluted wretch to another world,
where his wretchedness will forever remain complete".
Pomeroy's words reflect exactly the sentiment expressed by Otis McDonald
when he and his fellow Chicagoans filed a law suit against the
Democrat-controlled City of Chicago that had confiscated their weapons,
leaving them to the mercy of intruders who had broken open his door and
entered his home for vile purposes.
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— Require prospective gun owners to take a four-hour class and one-hour training at a gun range. They would have to leave the city for training because Chicago prohibits new gun ranges and limits the use of existing ranges to police officers. Those restrictions were similar to those in an ordinance passed in Washington, D.C., after the high court struck down its ban two years ago.
— Calls for the police department to maintain a registry of every handgun owner in the city, with the names and addresses to be made available to police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.
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