Supremes one of two yesterday

Hey, finally! We have some good news. The Supreme Court yesterday said that the Second Amendment said what the Second Amendment says – individual Americans have the right to keep and bear arms.


If there is any bad news in the good news, it’s that the ruling was 5-4. Huh? There are four legal minds that can read the Second Amendment and think, “No really the right ‘of the people’ to keep and bear arms that’s not what it means. It really means the right of the people we decide can keep and bear arms.”

One of the four dissenters, 192 year old John Paul Stevens, is being replaced by Jon Lovitz look-a-like Elena Kagan. Kagan’s hearings got underway yesterday and are sure to provide all of the drama of a Harlem Globetrotter’s basketball game. Gee, I hope the Globetrotter’s can finally win one against the Generals. The ‘Totters always win, and ever since Bork, the nominee always gets confirmed. This is why elections matter.

So the doe-eyed Kagan will be confirmed sans any real experience for the job she has been appointed to do. Hmmm, sounds familiar. She’s also not married. Seems she scared off all the men by being too smart. I saw no evidence of her “being too smart” yesterday but I did see other evidence of why men might shy away. Did you see the buttons on that outfit she was wearing? What? She couldn’t find a suit with bigger buttons.

But let’s get back to the Second Amendment. In true Chicago style, Mayor Daley indicated that in light of the high court’s ruling, the city would pass so many restrictive laws on gun ownership that the total would equal a ban. A ban? The hell you say. Recall this bit about a bloody Chicago weekend from a couple of posts below:

Eight people were killed and at least 44 others were shot across the city Friday night into early Monday, including a baby girl who suffered a graze wound to the neck when gunfire erupted at a Near West Side barbecue. On an especially violent Saturday, at least 21 people were shot. That included five people injured in four shootings in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, just blocks from the annual Puerto Rican festival.

Doesn’t’ sound like much of a ban to me. This story demonstrates the idiocy of such policies. Law abiding sheep lay down their guns and end up being preyed upon and slaughtered by scum bags that do not. Better to require each and every citizen to carry a gun than to disarm only the good guys.

In other news that proves that courts are no better than the dopes that populate them. The Supremes ruled that Christian groups can be banned from university for not allowing gays to join the group. Hmm, what about openly gay satin worshipers, should they be allowed to join the “Christian group” as well? What I’d like to see now is a bunch whiter than white Ken doll clones try to join the all black Omega Psi Phi fraternity on campus and see what the Supremes have to say about openness and diversity in that case. Or better yet whiter than white gay men forming a synchronized swim team show up to join the fraternity.