Letter to the Editor: Napolitano got it wrong

Dear Editor:

Andrew Napolitano (former judge of the New Jersey Superior Court) is still trying to mislead and obfuscate on important issues. In his April 22 opinion piece, he claims that President Biden is acting contrary to the U. S.

Supreme Court’s ruling on gun ownership.

Here are the facts. In 2008, and again in 2010, the Supreme Court affirmed that the right to own “hand guns” belongs to individuals, for self-defense in the home, while also including the statement that the right is not unlimited and does not preclude the existence of certain long-standing prohibitions, such as those forbidding “the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill” or restrictions on “the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons”.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia even wrote in the majority opinion, “I think you’d agree, that a handgun is so ideally suited for self-defense, because you can hold it in one hand and dial the cops with the other.”

Richard Daggett
Downey