Monday, 30 June 2008
The Left and Judges
« The Problem With Soccer | Main | More Polling Data on Congressional Races »I was reading David Hawpe's editorial for some odd reason and came across this quote from the Violence Policy Center legislative director Kristen Rand about the second amendment ruling.
"Today's opinion turns legal logic and common sense on its head. As measured in gun death and injury, handguns are our nation's most lethal category of firearm, accounting for the vast majority of the 30,000 Americans who die from guns each year. Handguns are our nation's leading murder and suicide tool. Yet the majority opinion offers the greatest offender the strongest legal protection. It's analogous to the Court carving out special constitutional protection for child pornography in a First Amendment case. In its ruling, the Court has ignored our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations and unparalleled gun violence.
It is interesting to see what liberals think about the court system. The court should look at the "devastation" guns bring about and forgo their job of interpreting the constitution. The justices should do what is good for the country and not what is true to the Constitution. How bass ackward is that logic?
The left doesn't see the role of the courts as interpreting the constitution, but it is another avenue for creating policy. We don't need non-elected justices legislating from the bench. That is the job of Congress. What we need are more judges who will do their job and determine the constitutionality of the laws passed by the legislature.
