Anti-gun Justice Saved by Guns

Fox News Digital reported on July 10 about a story that highlights the hypocrisy of limousine liberals who want to ban guns for private citizens but benefit from their use. The situation occurred when 18-year-old Kentrell Flowers allegedly tried carjacking an SUV parked outside the Washington, D.C., home of liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Flowers’ carjacking attempt was abruptly halted due to the fact that his intended victims, sitting in the vehicle, were armed U.S. marshals on Sotomayor’s security detail. The teen allegedly pointed his gun at the marshal sitting in the driver’s seat, who quickly fired at Flowers, wounding him. Flowers was taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment of the gunshot wound, and later arrested on charges “of armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.”

For those who don’t know, Sotomayor co-signed the dissent in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, in which the majority of the Court held that the right of an individual to “keep and bear arms” as protected by the Second Amendment is incorporated by the 14th Amendment, which makes it enforceable against the states. Sotomayor adamantly opposed this interpretation, writing in her dissent that the Second Amendment does not protect any “private right of armed self-defense.”

Second Amendment advocates were quick to point out the hypocrisy of how a woman who so infamously opposed armed self-defense was obviously benefiting from it. Parker Thayer, from the think tank Capital Research Center, posted on Twitter that “Sotomayor is protected by the same guns she has repeatedly written that civilians do not need and should not own.”

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