An Amazing Quote

From an L.A. Times story reprinted in today's Sun on the overturn of the D.C. handgun ban:

A leading gun-control advocate denounced the ruling as "judicial activism at its worst."

"By disregarding 70 years of Supreme Court precedent, two federal judges have negated the democratically expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.

A liberal activist complaining about an activist court? That's funny.

What Mr. Helmke fails to note is that the strict interpretation of the Constitution cannot, by definition, be "activist." One can only consider a decision as "judicial activism" when the court takes established precedent and creates new Constitutional rights, obligations, or privileges out of thin air. This D.C. decision merely (and correctly) restores the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment.