
ALEXANDRIA TOWN TALK
By Alan GottliebÂ
Despite repeated assurances from Barack Obama during last year’s presidential campaign and since the inauguration that he “supports” the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, the new president’s first nomination to fill a pending vacancy on the Supreme Court belies his words.
Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor has clearly indicated hostility to the notion that American citizens enjoy a fundamental individual civil right to own and possess firearms. A federal judge who only accepts 90 percent of the Bill of Rights cannot be allowed to become a Supreme Court justice for life.