Anti-gunners suppress Second Amendment rights in a variety of ways. Where they can get away with it, they ban various firearms outright or make vast swaths of public spaces off-limits to legal carry.
Then there’s the more subtle forms of violating constitutional freedoms.
Middletown and Waterbury, Connecticut, stand accused of “slow-walking” gun permit applications to extraordinary lengths, creating delays in what should be a simple process. The Department of Justice last week put both cities on notice that the federal government will not tolerate such callous disregard for the U.S. Constitution.
Constitutional rights are not reserved for the privileged few
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon apparently announces a DOJ action such as this at least once a week. The latest rejects the notion that the Constitution only protects the elite.
“All law-abiding Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense,” Dhillon proclaimed. “This right is not a luxury reserved for a privileged few, but a fundamental liberty for all, including the residents of Middletown and Waterbury, Connecticut.”
The DOJ noted that the U.S. Supreme Court in its watershed 2022 Bruen decision specifically declared that “lengthy wait times in processing license applications” are just another form of denying fundamental liberties.
Instead of an outright rejection, authorities drag the process out so long that good citizens cannot freely exercise their right to keep and bear arms.
It’s a dangerous strategy to defend certain rights and oppress others
Many anti-gun radicals are appalled that the DOJ’s Civil Rights Section is so keenly involved in protecting the Second Amendment. They much prefer that officials only safeguard a cherry-picked ledger of guaranteed rights, but that position is deeply flawed.
If the government can treat the Bill of Rights as a salad bar and pick and choose which to defend and which to oppress, gun rights opponents may be temporarily satisfied.
But that reasoning ignores the political reality that those in power today who favor your ideals may be swept out tomorrow. Their replacements may have much different priorities, which is exactly why all fundamental rights deserve equal protection under the law.
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