President Hillary + Supreme Court Ban on Guns = ?

The United States Supreme Court decided today to hear a Washington D.C. case that challenges D.C.'s ban on handguns. Potentially, when the justices rule, the fate of all private firearm possession hangs in the balance. The issue is the interpretation of the "militia clause" or the 2nd Amendent of the Constitution of the United States which says,

Amendment II

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.

The Roman Catholic Church has a well known position against the posession of firearms. Here is a statement by some pro-gun Catholics here in Virginia,

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society, a Virginia-based organization devoted to protecting the individual's right to self-defense, criticized statements by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy See's representative at the UN, endorsing "the promotion of disarmament" and calling for stiffer international controls on the sale and possession of firearms.

John Snyder, the founder and chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, said the archbishop's words pointed to a "terribly misguided secular political initiative." He urged Catholics in the US to protest that initiative.

"History has shown that government is the world’s greatest mass murderer, responsible for modern genocide," Snyder argued. "For example, the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, Soviets and Chinese Communists, were all made possible by first disarming the people."

Why is a guy,like me, who was baptized Roman Catholic and has a Roman Catholic spouse formerly on the MIT pistol team bringing up the Roman Catholic position on firearms? Namely because there are five Roman Catholics on the U.S. Supreme Court. See Five Catholics on The Supreme Court.

Dick Morris former advisor to the Clintons in a recent interview spoke of Hillary Clinton's proclivity to hire private detectives when digging up dirt on political enemies. To paraphrase Morris, he said, "You certainly don't want someone like Hillary in charge of the IRS or the CIA."

I would add that you certainly wouldn't want someone like Hillary enforcing a Supreme Court decision banning firearms. Here are some of her past statements:

We need to stand firm on behalf of sensible gun control legislation. We have to enact laws that will keep guns out of the hand of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced persons. Congress should have acted before our children started going back to school. I realize the NRA is a formidable political group; but I believe the American people are ready to come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.
Source: www.hillary2000.org, “Gun Safety” Sep 9, 2000

I think it does once again urge us to think hard about what we can do to make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced people. I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.
Source: Press Release Jul 31, 1999

Having a non-populist Supreme Court and a non-populist president could equal disaster.