TheWeekHoleView: The Clockwork Orange on View at the US Supreme Court

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On Monday, November 7, the U.S. Supreme Court, denied certiorari and thus review of a lower court’s decision banning assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

The bans were imposed by the City of Highland Park, Ill.—a suburb of Chicago—and prohibit large-capacity magazines, defined as those that can carry more than 10 rounds. They also prohibit semi-automatic guns that can use such magazines and have other features such as certain grips.

The Circuit Court decision upholding the ban was challenged by the gun industry, including its hired-gun the Illinois State Rifle Association. They asked the court to review whether bans on

“a class of constitutionally protected ‘Arms’ that includes the most popular rifles in the Nation” were constitutional. They also asked whether bans on “ammunition magazines that number in the tens of millions and make up nearly half of the Nation’s total stock of privately owned ammunition magazines for handguns and rifles” were constitutional.

The gist of the constitutional challenge was:

“if  the United States still has some money, then that money should be spent on buying and using guns.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, who does not talk because he gets slapped over his mouth when he does it, writes. He wrote a dissent to the denial of certiorari. He was joined by Justice Antonin Scalia who talks and writes despite being slapped over his mouth and hand.

Justice Thomas: Working to keep people alive and safe from gun wounds is as un-American as building public schools.

Justice Scalia, concurring: Halleluiah, Brother!

Justice Thomas:  This ban is a violation of our Second Amendment which should become our First and only Constitutional Amendment.

Justice Scalia, concurring: Halleluiah, Brother!

Justice Thomas: The ban inflicts unconstitutional limits on American freedoms and it unjustly harms law-abiding citizens who usually buy their guns and Granola bars in Wal-Marts all over this blessed country.

Justice Scalia, concurring: Halleluiah, Brother!

Luckily for the rest of us, there are more than two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and the others are neither self-hating minorities nor closeted mafia-lovers.

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By DANA NEACSU: TheWeekHoleView: The Clockwork Orange on View at the US Supreme Court