Gun Rights and Child Rape

What a mixed bag when it came to the rulings. Great news! Guns rights are individual rights. Well, that really isn’t news but it is nice they set it straight. It should have  been a 7-2 or 9-0 decision which reveals just how deliberate some of them are at tearing apart this nation’s Constitution.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s dramatic ruling establishing individual gun rights — along with other recent decisions — shows that the Roberts court remains deeply split despite justices’ efforts to find common ground.

In the annual term that finished Thursday, the justices divided 5-4 on many of their most closely watched cases: throwing out Washington’s ban on handguns, barring the death penalty for child rape and allowing Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before U.S. courts.

On the other hand the same Justices limited the death penalty in cases of child rape. This will affect multiple state laws as I understand it and ends justice for the child.

In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said a distinction must be drawn between first-degree murder and crimes against the state, which remain punishable by death, and other offenses that society views with similar revulsion. He noted most states do not permit a death sentence in cases of child rape and even those that do bar it in the absence of aggravating circumstances.

Perhaps Ohio is now best suited (along with other castle law states) to spare the State the humiliation of putting pedophiles and other violent people on the public dole while they fritter away the years watching TV and hurting each other. Come September these two rulings ought to remind the people that justice is best served in the home. Someone breaks into the home to do you harm (or your children) the remedy is simple. Two to the chest and one to the head. Justice is served and the public is saved from spending millions on people who don’t deserve any other holding cell than one 6 feet under.