{"id":57462,"date":"2016-02-09T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57462"},"modified":"2016-02-07T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:04:05","slug":"on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57462","title":{"rendered":"On Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Joe Doakes from Como Park emails about an appeals court ruling of interest to Second Amendment supporters:<\/p>\n

This article focuses on the important point:\u00a0 the battleground for Second Amendment rights is in the court-created rules, not the Constitution.<\/p>\n

If firearms ownership is a constitutionally protected fundamental right, then any law infringing that right must pass \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d<\/a> meaning the law must be narrowly tailored and the least restrictive means to further a compelling government interest.\u00a0 This is the same level of scrutiny given to restrictions on speech and religion and very few laws can meet that test.\u00a0 Which is as it should be \u2013 the whole POINT of constitutionally protected rights is to prevent the government from infringing on them.<\/p>\n

The lower court applied \u201cintermediate scrutiny\u201d which is a lower standard: laws can infringe on rights if the law furthers an important government interest in some way that is substantially related to the government\u2019s interest.\u00a0 This is the level of review given to sex discrimination laws: it\u2019s easier to pass because the right being protected is not as important in the constitutional hierarchy.<\/p>\n

The Court of Appeals got it right.\u00a0 Firearms belong with speech and religion on the top of the hierarchy of rights the Founders wanted to protect.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know, the Court of Appeals is still applying the idiotic \u201chome defense\u201d notion instead of recognizing the Founders intent that the citizenry be as well-equipped as the government in order to resist tyranny; but that\u2019s a battle yet to come.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But only if we keep the Supreme Court in rough balance.<\/p>\n

Which is one reason why I will plug my nose and vote for Donald Trump if he’s nominated.<\/p>\n

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Joe Joe Doakes from Como Park emails about an appeals court ruling of interest to Second Amendment supporters: This article focuses on the important point:\u00a0 the battleground for Second Amendment rights is in the court-created rules, not the Constitution. If firearms ownership is a constitutionally protected fundamental right, then any law infringing that right must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57463,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions\/57463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}