In a brutal smackdown, the 8-member US Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s ruling that because Tasers weren’t in use during the time of the Constitution’s ratification, the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to them – and neither does the Heller decision.
Boy, the smackdown they received was unexpected in its simplicity and frankness.
While stun guns were not in existence at the end of the 18th century, the same is true for the weapons most commonly used today for self-defense, namely, revolvers and semiautomatic pistols. Revolvers were virtually unknown until well into the 19th century, and semiautomatic pistols were not invented until near the end of that century. Electronic stun guns are no more exempt from the Second Amendment’s protections, simply because they were unknown to the First Congress, than electronic communications are exempt from the First Amendment, or electronic imaging devices are exempt from the Fourth Amendment.
Even Obama’s far left appointees stood behind the Heller decision.
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