Your Gun Is None of the Government’s Business

Like the First, the Second Amendment does not grant liberty; it restrains the government from interfering with it. Governor Hochul’s threats to the Supreme Court over a fundamental liberty are an offense to the Constitution.

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Governor Hochul at the state Capitol, July 1, 2022, at Albany. AP/Hans Pennink

No sooner had the Supreme Court released its decision last month recognizing the personal right to carry a handgun outside the home than the big-government politicians began to resist the court’s holding. None was more anti-Constitution than Governor Hochul, who told the court that “New York is ready for you.”

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