Gun Ruling -- Another example of Right Wing Hypocrites

[Armstead]

A basic tenant of so-called conservative right-wingnut "principles" is the notion of states and local rights trumping the federal government.

"We want to keep negroes out our schools, and it is a matter of states rights."

"We want to keep federal regulation out of (health care, the economy, the environment, etc.) and the Constitution says the federal government has to concede to the laws of states and localities."

They also don't like "activist judges" that interfere with legislation and the right of states.

Maybe there is a valid philosophical and political principle in there somewhere.

But the right wingers seem happy to jettison their own core "principles" when they become inconvenient.

That is what just happened at the Supreme Court, by superceding the ability of states and localities to determine their own laws and policies towards firearms. They make the "Constitutional case" that the Second Amendment trumps states rights.

But the fact is that wingnuts love them guns, and they are more than happy to embrace Federal judicial activism and toss out "states rights" to uphold their God given right to own a firearm with no restrictions.

Transparently hypocritical jerks they are.