How To Make Rahimi Constitutional
It's been a while since I have written an article here. I woke up this morning to the autistic screeching of the gun banners demanding all over social media that the Supreme Court ensure that "domestic abusers" have their right to keep and bear arms taken away from them. I got sick of interacting with these numbskulls after a while and decided to write this article to clear up some misconceptions about the Rahimi case. The left wants you to believe that Rahimi is about keepings guns from those convicted of domestic violence. In reality, this case has nothing to do with criminal convictions. Rather, it relates to the taking of guns from persons who are subject to restraining orders intended to prevent the commission of domestic violence. Although sometimes related to criminal proceedings, a proceeding on a domestic violence protective order is civil in nature. That means that the burden of proof in most states is "preponderance of the evidence" while, to convi...