By Paul Huebl In 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark Second Amendment decision that should have ended decades of judicial gamesmanship. It did not. Instead, several Democrat-controlled states responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022), by searching for new ways to obstruct the very right the Court had just reaffirmed. The result has been predictable and disgraceful. Peaceful, otherwise law-abiding Americans continue to face arrest, prosecution, crushing legal expenses, and possible imprisonment for conduct that may be protected by the Constitution. This is not an academic debate. Real people are losing their freedom. What Bruen Actually Decided In Bruen , the Supreme Court held that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense. More importantly, the Court rejected the interest-balancing test t...

Oh, what a glorious beacon of liberty we built! When our noble founders crafted the judiciary, it was supposed to be PURE DEMOCRACY in its most majestic form, where a simple majority could decide the fate of our sacred freedoms! But no, they cleverly designed it so that not even a rampaging mob of 51% could casually torch the Bill of Rights. We had layers of appeals, state courts, federal courts, and finally the Supreme Court as the ultimate guardian. What a brilliant plan.  Except… oops. Instead, we’ve handed these self-anointed gods in black robes the keys to the kingdom, and they’ve spent decades engaged in the world’s most expensive game of judicial group-think, sipping from the fountain of their own brilliance while “interpreting” our rights into oblivion through endless arguments and semantic gymnastics. They’ve taken crystal-clear, unambiguous words written by men who had just fought a revolution against tyranny and twisted them into a pretzel of legalistic nightmares tha...