Judging Freedom - Who Does Joe Biden Think He Is...

Episode Date: April 11, 2022

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Hello there everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Monday, April 11, 2022. It's about 11 o'clock in the morning on the East Coast. Before we get to the topic of the morning, please remember to like and subscribe. The more people that watch and listen to this podcast, the better extent our message will have. Also remember tomorrow, April 12th at 1245 in the afternoon Eastern, a former congressman, my longtime friend, great human being Ron Paul right here live on Judging Freedom. In about two hours, President Joe Biden will announce that he's going to sign an executive order directing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

to issue a new rule. So the president is directing an entity that works in the executive branch to issue a rule making certain guns illegal and requiring uniform registration of other guns. Wait a minute. I thought only Congress could make laws. I thought the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental liberty guaranteed by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. I thought the president doesn't write the laws, he enforces them. All of those things that I thought are correct and are still the law. Here's where we are. The president is terrified of ghost

guns. Ghost guns are guns that do not have a serial number on them that you can make on your own in a kit in your house with the right equipment. Sometimes good people use ghost guns and sometimes bad people do. Typical of the government when they can't control a problem, they want to ban it. So they want to ban all ghost guns. Ghost guns are good. It is good if the government can't trace guns. The government should not know who has guns. Someday we may need our guns to protect ourselves from the government. That's the whole reason we have the right to keep and bear arms. It's a natural right of self-defense. Do you have to register your desktops? Do you have to register your printers? Do you have to register ink and paper

with the government? Of course not. The Second Amendment is no less a protection of human liberty than is the first. The government has no more business compelling you to register a gun than it does requiring you to register a pencil. That's the philosophical constitutional argument with what the president is about to announce. There's another constitutional argument. He's already proposed these regulations in Congress. Senator Charles Schumer, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, offered these. They didn't get the first base. They didn't pass the Senate. They didn't pass the House. So what does that mean? If they can't get the Congress to write a law, they'll write

one on their own? Well, that's not the system of government we have in America. The backbone of the Constitution is the separation of powers. Congress writes the laws, the president enforces the laws, the judiciary interprets the laws. Who the hell does Joe Biden think he is that he can write a law that Congress has refused and declined to enact into legislation. I'm not getting carried away. I'm angry because this is serious, serious stuff. The right to self-defense, which Justice Scalia wrote in District of Columbia v. Heller, a 2008 landmark Supreme Court opinion. The right to self-defense using the same instruments of self-defense as the bad guys and as the government uses is a fundamental liberty that comes from our humanity. Our humanity is a gift from God. Just like if you're about to punch me in the nose, I can block you and punch you. I can use a weapon to protect myself and my family and my property. Every time a dictator

takes over a country, what's the first thing the dictator does? Take the weapons away from the people. How do they know what people have weapons? Because the people registered them. That's what Joe Biden wants to do. He wants to force all Americans to participate in a federal registry of guns, something the Congress has repeatedly declined to do. Joe, you're wrong. The Constitution doesn't allow it, and the courts will interfere with it. Judge Napolitano, judging freedom.