By Stewart Resmer
During Justice Clarence Thomas’ nomination process he complained the hearings were a hi tech lynching.
He was successfully installed to the high court despite his allegations of some kind of perceived prejudice.
For the longest time on the bench he asked no question of petitioners nor offered much of any opinions, written or oral.
These days however, it is suddenly obvious that he has some very strongly held views of his own all along that prejudice the rest of us of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
This week, he is credited with penning the majority opinion that holds that firearms with bump stocks affixed to them are not machine guns. I, for one, strenuously object to that bogus and disengenous assertion.
As a Vietnam veteran I know the difference to this very day 50 years on from the sound of an AK-47 from an M-14 or an M-16 or a M-60 machine gun juxtaposed to a 50 caliber heavy machine gun and a A-1 1911 sidearm.
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrette nor Roberts clearly do not.
Are they dangerously malevolent or are they in some kind of deliberate denial about the sear selector that indicates a particular above named firearms are set to single shot or fully automatic?
Failing that obvious ignorance between the two functions all they ever need do is close their eyes and listen or perhaps look at the carnage each weapon and function are capable of having caused and how fast to realize these weapons are capable of functioning no different than that of a 1934 Thompson .45 caliber weapon commonly reffered to,as a machine gun.
While Thomas seems to have lots to proffer these days, he’s dead wrong about the mass murder capabilities of any instantly attachable apparatus that is capable of firing up to 400 bullets a minute at ballistic speed as opposed to a single shot of a revolutionary war musket.
If he and his cohorts conclude that a thus modified modern day single shot firearm with a bump stock is not a machine gun, it remains a hi-tech killing machine capable of out pacing any human beings trigger finger nonetheless and they know it.
And if that’s true they have no damnable business whatsoever handling such killing machines themselves nor hearing and deciding existential verdicts like this one to begin with.
Stewart Resmer is a retired Hollywood stuntman and USMC veteran of the Vietnam War who resides in Wayne, New Jersey.