The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2009 that the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution only applies to federal laws and not cities or states. They stated this in their decision to uphold the city of Chicago’s gun ban. So apparently our rights guaranteed by the Constitution only apply if the federal government is trying to oppress us, but our local cities and states are free to do whatever they please. This ruling is absolutely ridiculous, can you imagine a court saying the same thing about the 1st Amendment? The Constitution is the highest law of the land and the Bill of Rights protects us from all oppression whether it be local or national. This is not convenient for activist judges however who want to cherry pick which rights we are allowed to have and where we are allowed to have them.
Oh, by the way, Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made a similar ruling in January of 2009 in the case Maloney v. Cuomo.
The Constitution is being shredded before our eyes by activist judges playing semantic games to suit their own political and ideological purposes.
