All Amendments to the Constitution Are Not Created Equal

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/hochul-supreme-court-domestic-violence.html

("The Supreme Court Case That Has Me Worried, for Survivors and for My State")

Go ahead, name all the Amendments to the Constitution. I'll wait. Ok, neither can I.

There are a few that seem to stand out, that impact our daily lives more than others. The First Amendment (the freedom to say what you think, or not say what you don't think, that doesn't even sound right ). The Fourteenth Amendment (all men, but not all women, and certainly not all those we don't consider as equals, are created equal). And the Second (the right to keep weapons to make sure a bad government can have a musket shoved in its face or to make sure your neighbor doesn't step on your lawn).

So, doesn't it seem like our most fundamental rights are more than a bit wobbly these days? And Governor Hochul, I fear, is well schooled and well worried as to where the Second Amendment may be heading. 

I thought the Constitution, and those enforcing its dictates, were supposed to have taken the hippocratic oath, to prescribe only beneficial treatments and to refrain from causing harm. But I was wrong. It appears, as to are obsession with holding big guns in tiny hands, they have taken a different pledge, shoot first and ask questions later

Where is the balancing act between personal liberty and the right of the Government to say that all liberty is not created equal? For those who have demonstrated a history of spousal abuse, given our knowledge that one abuse far too often leads to others, given the statistics that should inform us that where there is smoke there is far too often fire, why in the Hell should there be an unfettered right to hold a weapon of massive destruction in the abuser's hands? 

The Constitution was not an invitation to lose the capacity to reason nor the ability to state that the cost of some freedoms is too great for us as a society to bear. I can only hope that Governor Hochul's fears (and mine) are unfounded and that the Supreme Court will not rule that everyone, no matter their propensities, has an inalienable right to make their point with a bang and a coroner's report.