Judging Freedom - Gun Law Overhaul in NJ

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

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here in New Jersey, where of course I tend to follow the destruction of personal liberties by the legislature and the governor more closely since they personally affect me. The latest assault on personal liberty here is an assault on gun rights signed into law by Governor Murphy just right before New Year's Eve. The new legislation in New Jersey is very similar to that which has already been invalidated in New York. It's an effort by an ultra-left legislature and governor to circumvent, avoid, evade, whatever you want to call it, the Supreme Court decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas in June, which defined the right to keep and bear arms as a personal fundamental right akin to the rights protected by the First

Amendment. And that's key here, that the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, is in the same category as the First Amendment. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. Just as the government can't keep records of the books you buy and the pens and papers you buy and the printer you use and what you print on it. The government can't keep track of the guns you buy and the ammunition you use. All of these regulations that Governor Murphy put into place, you can't carry to a school. My God, if parents or teachers or staff in Uvalde or Sandy Hook had been able to carry, those massacres might not have happened. Courthouses, bars, election locations, sensitive places in the state.

All of this will be invalidated by the federal courts who will find that this is not legitimate regulation of guns. This is an effort to frustrate the exercise of a fundamental liberty, a fundamental liberty that goes back to the beginning of the republic, a fundamental liberty redefined and recategorized by the Supreme Court as recently as six months ago when it said this is a liberty that belongs to each person and the states can't interfere with it. As long as there's a history of the right to carry, and there is because there was at the time the Second Amendment was enacted, then there can be no interference with the contemporary right to carry that violates that history. And because the Second Amendment is akin to the first, what the government cannot do to interfere with your freedom of speech,

it cannot do to interfere with your freedom to defend yourself and to defend people around you. Governor Murphy simply doesn't understand the nature of human liberty. How do we know that? When my friend and former colleague Tucker Carlson asked him during the COVID lockdowns, how do you square the COVID lockdowns that you've imposed with the Bill of Rights. He said, the Bill of Rights? That's above my pay grade. Apparently it is. The Bill of Rights, of course, is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution,

which obviously includes the second amendment, which is the one that protects the right to keep and bear arms, which is the one at which Governor Murphy and the liberal Democrats on the legislature here in New Jersey simply thumb their noses at because they don't understand the nature of human liberty. Now, I say to the Democrats, your problem is not with me. Your problem is with the Constitution. It's also with human nature. It is human nature. It is a natural

right to defend yourself and to defend your loved ones and to defend your property, since the police don't show up until after the deaths or destruction have occurred. Using a gun to defend yourself and your loved ones and your property is a modern mechanical means of the ancient natural right to self-defense. That's not me. That's Justice Thomas and the Supreme Court in its 6-3 decision, June 2022, upholding this natural and constitutionally protected right. Thank goodness federal judges will invalidate what Governor Murphy has done because he has nothing but antipathy towards human liberty. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.