Security stationed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor was confronted by an armed man presumed to be a carjacker. They shot him.
“In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense.” — Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald https://t.co/qSWVRiY444
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 9, 2024
Sotomayor signed on to Justice Breyer’s dissent in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense. There has been, and is, no consensus that the right is, or was, “fundamental.” No broader constitutional interest or principle supports legal treatment of that right as fundamental. To the contrary, broader constitutional concerns of an institutional nature argue strongly against that treatment.
The common man does not get armed US Marshall protection unless they are a high-value convict or witness (or a US Supreme Court Justice whose fan base harasses or threatens the so-called conservative members of the court). Law enforcement has no legal obligation to protect you. And based on Sotomayor’s dissent, the armed carjacker that comes up to your vehicle knows they have a force majority, and you are nothing more than a victim.
That’s her stance, but not the life she is living unless someone is suggesting that everyone has a right to have someone else defend them with a firearm.
