What a surprise: President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court is an overly-deferential “moderate” with an anti-Second Amendment history.
In the face of Republican calls for a vote to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the late Antonin Scalia until after the presidential election this November, Obama has pushed ahead with submitting a candidate for consideration. That candidate is one Merrick Garland.
Who is Merrick Garland, you ask? A DC Circuit Court of Appeals judge, described ad nauseam by the media as “brilliant”, although they’re hard pressed to tell what you exactly about his record is “brilliant.” It’s not his past rulings on gun rights, that’s for sure.
While pundits ascribe the label of “centrist” to Garland, the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action points out that his stance on guns is anything but. Indeed, his rulings on the subject easily put him in the ranks of the most vehement anti-gun liberals.
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As the NRA-ILA observes, appointing Garland to the Supreme Court would be a disaster for gun owners. Not only has he voted to give Washington D.C. a second chance to maintain it’s unconstitutional handgun ban, but he has also voted to allow the government to keep information gathered in background checks in express violation of federal law permitting storage of such information:
“The NRA-ILA says that, ‘If Garland is confirmed, Obama would be taking America back in time to an era where Supreme Court justices uphold the anti-gun policies of the president. Obama is hoping Garland will overturn the Supreme Court precedent that stands in the way of confiscatory gun control, like the gun ban and confiscation programs implemented in Australia.’
Australia launched a nationwide gun confiscation program of its private citizens after a gunman killed 35 people in 1996. The Australian government bought 650,000 guns, including semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns, in a mandatory buyback program.
The NRA-ILA’s executive director Chris Cox released a statement Wednesday on the Garland nomination saying:
‘With Justice Scalia’s tragic passing, there is no longer a majority of support among the justices for the fundamental, individual right to own a firearm for self-defense. Four justices believe law-abiding Americans have that right – and four justices do not. President Obama has nothing but contempt for the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners.’”
Source: Daily Caller
we dont waant someone who is going to do that.
If you accept the premise that obama hates America, and hates Americans, then everything he has said, and done, and everything he has not said and not done, makes perfect sense. To better understand the origin of his beliefs, and their foundation, read, in his own words, obama’s books, “Dreams From My Father” and “Audacity of Hope”. Then look at what he has done in light of what he has said. barack obama is also a follower of, and a believer in Saul Alinsky, a communist community organizer who wrote a book titled “Rules for Radicals”. Read/examine these publications, then tell me you can honestly believe barack obama has America’s interests in his mind, let alone in his heart. More directly he is doing exactly what he stated 5 days before he was elected for his first term as president – his promise that “we are 5 days from fundamentally transforming America”. barack obama is the greatest threat this country has ever faced. That he was elected at all is one thing, but that the American people have tolerated repeated insult, injury, and acts of lawlessness without objection from this man, yet elect him for a second term says far more about us than it does about him.
Anybody really surprised by this?? Besides the RINOS!!
Was this the opinion of Judge William O’Reilly. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/03/conservatives_smear_merrick_garland_as_an_anti_gun_warrior.html
Just another sneaky end-run by the traitor. McConnell better hold off until after election and see who Trump will nominate. They might be very surprised.
obummer is without a DOUBT WORSE then any President we have EVER had or EVER could have . obummers Legacy = obummer is the BIGGEST and WORST FAILURE this country has EVER had but that’s all you an expect when a bunch of IGNORANT / Brain Dead / MORONS put an ILLEGAL ALIEN / mozlem TRAITOR in the White House…..
Three of a kind all political hacks
HE ONLY APPOINTS DUMB Democrats and muslim terrorists to office.
Good for Obama!!! It’ll be great for America.
Most states already been doing background checks.