By Kevin “Coach” Collins
It took five days for the news to finally get out because the leftist media didn’t know how to spin it, but last Thursday gun control extremist Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer his wife and guests were robbed at machete point inside their own home.
The irony of this incident is that despite having some of the toughest and most draconian gun control laws in the Western Hemisphere since 2008 St. Kitts/Nevis has been on The State Department’s travel advisory list warning Americans who must go there not to walk alone at night.
St. Kitts/Nevis a nation, whose gun control laws are the stuff of Justice Breyer’s dreams come true, is a very dangerous place and its crime statistics prove its gun control laws are a crashing failure. Since 1997 when the island nation adopted the Organization of American States blatant attack on the rights of self-defense with its Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Explosives, Ammunition and Other Related Materials, St Kitts/Nevis has become a very dangerous place.
From 2000 to 2009 homicides (the most recent data available) by guns have risen from 3 to 27. During the same period the homicide rate by all methods has skyrocketed from 6.52 to 51.92 per 100,000 people.
They not only “track” guns but account for every single bullet and yet they forgot about “machete control.” They apparently think “guns kill people” not people kill people.
District of Columbia v. Heller
In the landmark victory for self-defense through exercise of our Second Amendment rights a 5 to 4 Supreme Court majority held that keeping a gun in your home for purposes of self-protection against someone who would kick down your door and rob you with a weapon – say a machete – was legal. Breyer voted against affirming that right.
There is an old saying that comes to mind in this situation, “A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged.” Breyer of course will not change. People like him with their support for rendering American court decisions using foreign laws –( why not, his wife is British subject) – will never change. Nevertheless, this episode reminds us once again of how blind liberals are to the truth. Maybe Breyer will call for machete control here and in his adopted homeland.
Ronald Reagan had this one about right. He once said, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”
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To read more use these links:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/machete_ordeal_for_supreme_nLsgz1p9WmDNzEYfi7bw1I
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/st-kitts-and-nevis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
http://icon.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/4/519.extract
http://reaganquotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/our-liberal-friends/
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I wonder if he will benefit from this episode of "enlightenment?" I doubt it. The more liberals are abused by criminals, the more convinced they are that THEY abused him and it would take divine intervention of Road-to-Damascus proportions to convince them otherwise.
For that to happen would require a scarcely to be foreseen concatenation of highly improbable meteorological occurrences within the infernal regions…i.e. when hell freezes over
RobbinsMitchell
Your 11:23 AM comment was pulled for language. Please do not post bar room words here.
Thank You
Coach
OK,Coach…but you know I'm right about what he is
Amberchrome,
You're right on the money. It's standard liberal belief that criminals are only criminals because they have been unjustly abused by society. Has the poor machete-wielder been " understood" rather than punished for his other 25 felonies, none of it would have happened!
How can the left spin this mess? Maybe by claiming that without the draconian, anti-gun, anti-self-defense measures in place on the island, Breyer could have been attacked by a criminal carrying a gun rather than a machete! And THEN Breyer would have been unable–thanks to his own rules and belief system–to defend himself from a GUN rather than a big KNIFE!!! And naturally that would have been MUCH WORSE…somehow.
Anyhow, its nice Breyer and friends were not hurt. Obama would have replaced him with another Marxist–no doubt with Orrin Hatch's blessing–even if he had been. But don't count on his having learned anything from the experience. After all, it's weapons that are eeeevil, not he people who use them. Everybody knows that!!!!
Coach,,,,The quote from Ronald Reagan was a most appropriate ending to your article….and one that these hordes of Obomots invading this site would do well to remember…it's hard NOT to be rude and dismissive of toward the bilge they try to force down our throats.