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Sotomayor Would Not Concede a Right to Self-Defense
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When Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) asked Wednesday whether citizens have a right to self-defense, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “I don’t know.”
Unsatisfied, Coburn continued, “But do you have an opinion, of whether or not in this country I personally, as an individual citizen, have a right to self-defense?”
Sotomayor responded, “I – as I said, I don’t know.”
Van Alstyne expressed the idea that the right to self-defense is so basic as to be implied by the very nature of the Constitution itself. “...if government is unable to protect us from the threat of others to kill, why then we never gave to government the power to deprive us of our natural right of human self defense.”
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