Unsurprisingly, the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals ruled that the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to regular folks, just the almighty government.

Contrary to hundreds of years of history, the Ninth Circus, the most overturned court in the U.S., ruled that while Amendments 1, and Amendments 3 through 10 apply to individuals, and enumerate and protect certain unalienable rights, Amendment 2 does not apply to anyone outside of the government.

Matthew Nosanchuk, gun grabber for the Violence Policy Center in Washington, expressed glee at the thought of denying people their unalienable individual rights. He claimed that the ruling "is a very important contribution that should drive a stake through the heart of the individual-rights position."

I find thinking like this very scary, as well as completely moronic. While big government communists on the left are fearful of any individual owning a gun, Libertarians like myself are very disturbed at the thought of only an imperial government being allowed to keep and bear arms.

Judge Reinhardt scribed this very disturbing passage in his ruling:

"What the drafters of the amendment thought 'necessary to the security of a free state' was not an 'unregulated' mob of armed individuals such as Shay's band of farmers, the modern-day privately organized Michigan Militia, the type of extremist 'militia' associated with Timothy McVeigh and other militants with similar anti-government views, groups of white supremacists or other racial or religious bigots, or indeed any other private collection of individuals." (emphasise mine)

Of course, people with any general knowledge of history know that Reinhardt is all wet. The fact remains that the federal government had no standing army back then, and the Revolutionary War was fought by the very 'unregulated mob of armed individuals' and 'band of farmers' that Reinhardt condemns and calls 'racist' and 'anti-government'.