Hawaii’s anti-Second Amendment leaders got a wakeup call last month when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s “vampire rule.” The 6-3 majority concluded that it is unconstitutional to require the owners of private property open to the public to give affirmative consent to carry firearms.
The clear message from Wolford v. Lopez was obviously lost on justices who supported the state’s indefensible position that the Second Amendment must give way to the “Aloha spirit.”
In a rambling opinion on a case with no gun rights relevance, justices launched a tirade of criticism against the highest court in the land.
Justices made startling claims after SCOTUS rejected unconstitutional state law
Judges blasted the U.S. Supreme Court for not honoring “the work of 1954.” In the next breath, the Hawaii court claimed that “it revives the work of 1857. The work of 1896.”
To be clear, 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education decision declared legal segregation to be unconstitutional and rejected the notoriously wrong Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) precedents.
The Hawaii court accused justices of “making the country more dangerous with a Second Amendment unmoored from text or history and unrecognizable to the framers who wrote it.” Again, this attack filled eight pages of a nondescript decision on an unrelated matter.
Aloha State lawyers presented discredited law as evidence to US Supreme Court
Perhaps the Hawaii jurists forgot a disturbing argument presented to the U.S. Supreme Court by its attorneys during arguments over the now-defunct “vampire rule.”
After Bruen, which the Aloha State’s leadership openly disdains, modern gun control laws must be consistent with the country’s historical tradition of regulating weapons.
This landmark ruling protects Second Amendment rights from those who would rewrite the Constitution and reject its ideals in favor of modern political interests.
To the shock and dismay of many, Hawaii presented a slice of Louisiana’s post-Civil War Black Codes to bolster its weak position in Wolford. The high court was understandably surprised when this “tainted artifact,” as Justice Samuel Alito described the blatantly racist law, was revealed to be part of the state attorneys’ justification for severely repressing lawful carry.
For the Hawaii Supreme Court to smear the high court is inconsistent at best and, more likely, intellectually dishonest.
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