Last week, the governor of New Mexico confronted what she claimed was a health crisis, and her solution was to deny her law-abiding constituents the right to bear arms.
The health crisis she identified was an uptick in the homicide rate in the city of Albuquerque. Her solution was to turn off the personal liberty of residents there. She purported to do this by issuing an executive order that prescribed the penalties for doing what was perfectly lawful the day before the decree: openly carrying a registered handgun.
From that case forward, the feds and the states began aggressively regulating the possession, sale and movement of weapons. The big-government types in both political parties regularly either enacted laws or gave bureaucrats the power to promulgate and enforce regulations that severely impaired the right to keep and bear arms.
Scalia reasoned that the Second Amendment does not grant the right to keep and bear arms; rather, it restrains the government from interfering with it. Thus, the original public understanding of the right to keep and bear arms — which is the right to use guns to protect life, liberty and property from bad guys and tyrants — is the governing principle of all gun laws today.
What about emergencies? The Supreme Court has also ruled consistently that there are no emergency exceptions to the fundamental rights guaranteed from infringement in the Bill of Rights. All violated the separation of powers, as these unlawful commands were issued by governors and bureaucrats, not enacted by legislatures. And they all infringed upon natural human rights, including worship, speech, assembly and travel, none of which can be impaired without proving fault or guilt at a jury trial.
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