Judging Freedom - Gun Control on the Way_

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, June 22, 2022. It's about 1045 in the morning here on the east coast of the United States. I woke up this morning to see the headlines that the Senate of the United States passed a hurdle, that is the filibuster was defeated in efforts for the federal government to get its nose under the tent with respect to regulating guns. The compromise negotiated by a group of 10 Republicans who claim that they are in favor of the Second Amendment and all the Democrats in the United States Senate really is just something for bragging rights. It basically says that if you're between 18 and 21 and you want to buy a rifle, the people from whom you buy the rifle have to engage in a more thorough background check of you. Well, this is hogwash, because if you have a mental issue and you've been diagnosed with mental instability

or some tendency towards violence, this is not going to show on a background check. The background checks don't get to your mental woes. They only get to your crimes. So if whatever you've done between the age of 18 and 21 has not resulted in a conviction it won't even show on on the background check so for the Democrats to be boasting and the Republicans to be going along with this it's not going to keep anybody safer all it's going to do is make guns more expensive the longer the background check the deeper the people have to go

the more involved it is, the more time is consumed, the more profit is consumed. They're going to get that back by raising the price of guns and ammo, something the government can't do directly, it will do indirectly. And don't mistake it, that's what their goal is, to put guns and to put ammo out of people's reach. The other more reprehensible aspect of this is red flag laws. The federal government is going to give money away. It's not your tax dollars because your tax dollars have been spent. It's money that they have borrowed in your name, which will be repaid by future generations. That's the way the government operates.

The government is going to give money to the states for the states to establish aggressive red flag laws. Now, 19 states have red flag laws already. 31 do not. Red flag laws permit a secret complaint about you to be given to the police. So-and-so is angry. So-and-so showed some violence. So-and-so yelled at a waiter in a restaurant. So-and-so knocked over a glass of milk in a cafeteria. So you better go take his guns away from him. And if a judge buys this one-sided nonsense, then the police will show up at your house and take your guns away. No charge, no proof, no crime committed, no trial, no due process, just the loss of liberty,

the ability to defend yourself, and property, the gun. The Fifth Amendment could not be clearer. No one shall be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process means a charge against you for something you already did, not for thinks you might do. The new process requires a fair jury trial with all the constitutional protections with a neutral judge and with the right to appeal. It's not a one-sided application. We think so-and-so might be dangerous, so we want to go seize his guns. This would make Joe Stalin very happy

because the first thing dictators do, totalitarians do when they take over the government, is to seize guns. Why? Turn on CNN or Fox or MSNBC and look at what's happening in Ukraine. You need guns to protect yourself. The government doesn't want you to protect yourself. The most despicable people in this so-called compromise are the so-called pro-gun Republicans who are in favor of this, who are afraid to say to their constituents the right to keep and bear arms. I'm going to tell them what they should say.

The right to keep and bear arms is a natural, fundamental right. It comes from your humanity. It is the modern extension of the ancient right to self-defense. It is in the same category of rights as your right to think as you wish and say what you think and publish what you say, to worship or not to worship, to associate or not to associate, and to protect yourself. There is no compromising with personal rights. Any compromise with the right to protect yourself will begin the slow, inevitable erosion of that right. And my friends, you should vote against every person in the Congress, Democrat and Republican, who impairs your right to protect yourself in even the most minute way, because once that camel's nose is under the tent, the stench of government

authoritarianism will pervade. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.