The Western Journal
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It seems as if Hawaii is going out of its way to demonstrate the utter contempt with which blue cities hold our constitutional rights.
Specifically, the Hawaii Supreme Court has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which grants American citizens the right to bear arms, must take a back seat to the island state’s “spirit of Aloha.”
No, this isn’t a mediocre SNL skit — this is Hawaii’s reasoning for denying a man his Second Amendment rights.
This bizarre justification comes from the opinion of a recent Hawaii Supreme Court case, Hawaii v. Wilson.
As reported in The Reload, in this case the Hawaii Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court, which ruled that the charges Christopher Wilson faced for carrying a gun without a permit violated his rights.
Conservative media outlet Mediaite reported that Hawaii’s decision is directly contrary to recent decisions from the United States Supreme Court, such as New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, wherein the Supreme Court ruled that New York’s stipulation of a “special need” to be able to obtain a gun permit was unconstitutional.
In the opinion explaining the Hawaii Supreme Court’s judgment, the text of which was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the justices first decided that hundreds of years of legal precedent regarding the Second Amendment is just wrong.
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