Op-Ed: Justice Breyer's remarks on guns revisionist thinking

by The (Bowling Green, KY) Daily News

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an ideologue: a judicial activist who rules by his own political and personal philosophy, rather than the rule of law and what our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago.

The left-leaning justice recently made remarks that further the suspicion that has been held for years - he doesn't rule in regard to the Constitution, but rather a far-left political philosophy.

On Sunday, Breyer, a Bill Clinton appointee, said the Founding Fathers never intended guns to go unregulated.

Breyer said history stands with the dissenters in the Court's decision to overturn the Washington, D.C., handgun ban in 2008 case D.C. v. Heller.

Language in the Heller decision, however, acknowledged the constitutionality of some restrictions on guns.

Breyer wrote the dissent and was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. He said historians would side with him in the case because they have concluded that founding father James Madison was more worried that the Constitution might not be ratified than he was about granting individuals the right to bear arms.

Mr. Breyer, you couldn't be more wrong.

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