Thomas Hardiman Quotes
The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment.
Binderup v. Attorney General. 836 F.3d 336. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. 2016.
The justice was referring to the fact that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, and that the Founding Fathers intended, that the Second Amendment applies to State militias and not to an individual's right to bear arms.
This was the critical Supreme Court decision which finally decided the long debated issue or whether the right to bear arms was an individual right or a collective militia right. Scalia’s majority opinion ruled it an individual right, but it allowed for exceptions where there might be unusual individual risk. It also upheld the right of the government to control where guns are carried and to regulate the commercial sale of firearms which some of the pro gun extremists had insisted the government had no right of regulaltion.
The “New World Order” is a “secret organization” which a number of conspiracy theorists believe is running much of the world behind the scenes and is planning to disarm all Americans as an early step in the takeover of America so they can have a dictatorial one world government. Jones is one of those believers.
The Southern Rebels who insisted on their right to have guns during Reconstruction, viciously denied that same right to the newly freed slaves. Sickles tried to remedy this, but the KKK and other terrorists intimidated most of the Blacks into not using the right that they had. Later, they would do that with the right to vote.
Thomas Michael Hardiman is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Nominated by US President George W. Bush, he began active service on April 2, 2007. He maintains chambers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was previously a United States District Judge.
