THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL SHRINK UNDER PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON

A left-wing Supreme Court will reverse District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago to rule that the right to bear arms does not apply to individual citizens

Gun owners and gun-rights advocates celebrated the District of Columbia v. Heller decision in 2008 and McDonald v. Chicago in 2010, decisions in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects individual gun ownership.

In Heller, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

Justice Scalia has since passed away, leaving the Supreme Court evenly divided between liberal and conservative justices.

McDonald held that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms" protected by the Second Amendment is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and applies to the states.

Both Heller and McDonald were 5-4 decisions with the conservative justices voting for and the liberal justices voting against.

Celebrate yes, but for how long?

Let’s say that Hillary Clinton gets elected President, which is still likely to happen. If she wins by a substantial margin, not necessarily a landslide, she will drag a bunch of down-ballot Democrats with her. That would put the Democrats back in control of the Senate which has to confirm any Supreme Court nominees.

In addition to the now departed Justice Scalia, it is very probable that at least one more conservative justice will leave the Supreme Court. This means that Clinton will be able to replace two conservative justices with two left-wingers like Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan which will give the liberal justices a 6-3 majority.

With the liberals in control of the Supreme Court and the Democrats in control of the Senate, you can bet that Heller and McDonald will be revisited. When that happens, the Second Amendment will be shrunk.

By a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court will rule that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” applies only to people in the military and law enforcement, thus stripping away the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.

Now this does not mean that gun owners will have their firearms confiscated. But it does mean that the individual states, cities and counties will be able to enact the strictest of gun-control regulations, up to the confiscation of all privately held firearms.

Take California. The Democratic controlled state legislature has been on a gun-control rampage for some time now. It is not inconceivable that a Democratic legislature would go so far as to ban private gun ownership within the state of California. And San Francisco, that liberal bastion of perversion, would most likely ban gun ownership within the city. So would uber-liberal Berkeley.

Chicago would probably ban gun ownership and New York City would probably do the same.

On the other hand, Texas and the southern states will not ban private gun ownership and neither will the cities and counties within those states. Austin, the Berkeley of Texas, might be the lone exception.

Of course, those gun bans wherever they may be enacted will apply only to normal law abiding citizens, not to criminals, crackpots or Islamic terrorists. Criminals, crackpots and terrorists will hold onto their guns and continue running around shooting defenseless law abiding citizens to death.

Many police chiefs favor strict gun controls because they fear losing their jobs if they do not toe the political correctness line. However, most rank-and-file police officers do not favor punishing law abiding citizens for the deeds of criminals, crackpots and terrorists who are running around shooting cops and other people.

Those of us who are opposed to further gun controls better get down on our knees and pray every day between now and November that Hillary Clinton does not get elected President! Maybe the Good Lord will hear us and answer our prayers.