bearingarms.com By Cam EdwardsÂ
In its patently ridiculous decision declaring that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” found in the Hawaii constitution doesn’t actually protect the right of an individual to possess or carry a firearm, state Supreme Court justices quoted from the HBO series “The Wire” to help explain their rationale.Â
âThe thing about the old days, they the old days,â the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday said, borrowing a quote from season four, episode three of the HBO series to express that the culture from the founding of the country shouldn’t dictate contemporary life.
Ironically, that same decision relied extensively on “the old days” to declare that no individual right to keep and bear arms exists in the state.
Tough shit. You are part of the United States. pic.twitter.com/LKhucmx2K2
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) February 7, 2024
I guess only some history matters to the justices. In fact, Moros found an even better example of the court picking and choosing which parts of the past to recognize.
Turns out a collective/militia-only style version of a right to bear arms was proposed when Hawaii was debating their new constitution, but was not adopted. (Other rejected provisions in this nearly 200 item list include banning the communist party haha)
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— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) February 9, 2024
Guess those old days weren’t so old after all, huh?
Personally, I think a quote from another HBO series is far more applicable when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms than the one the justices cribbed from The Wire…
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