The recent fight over the U.S. Supreme Court nominee has ignored relevant history that has been hidden from the American public by the media — either intentionality or through lack of knowledge.

In 1911 New York passed the Sullivan Gun Control Act, requiring law abiding citizens to get a license to possess a firearm that could be concealed. Tammany Hall soon realized that this was a gold mine. Politicians and some law personnel in New York were selling licenses to posses a handgun for up to $85,000. Concealed carry permits sold for more than $150,000 at a time when some people worked for less than five dollars a day. This disarmed the ordinary citizens, enriched the politicians and allowed criminals to safely ply their trade. Other cities soon followed suit.

Washington, D.C., passed a law that prevented possession of firearms within the city without a special permit. However, former U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., kept a fully automatic military M-16 with three loaded magazines in his residence, a violation of the Federal Fire Arms Act of 1934. When he was exposed, there was no punishment.

A D.C. special policeman, Heller, applied for a permit to keep a handgun in his home and was denied by the DC courts. The U.S. Circuit Court with Judge Merrick Garland, ruled that the 2nd amendment does not give a citizen the right to bear arms and a city or state has a right to restrict or limit that right if it does exist.

The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court and the circuit court ruling was overruled by a vote of 5 to 4. Supreme Court Liberal Judge Stephen Breyer in his dissent said, “a person may have a right to own a gun but that does not mean he may keep it in his bedroom.” Before, when a permit was issued in D.C., the owner was to keep the firearm dissembled, a trigger lock engaged, and ammunition stored in a separate room.

If Garland had been added to the U.S. Supreme Court, then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who made his career as an anti-firearm zealot, would have tried to get three judges to accept any case involving the 2nd Amendment. Then the left wing, liberal, anti-gun five judges could disarm America faster than an invading army.

The other fact ignored by the media is case-law that says police are not required by law to come to a citizen’s aid. They usually do, but if, when called, they don’t come or come late and your family is raped and murdered, as happened to a family in Massachusetts, you cannot sue anybody. They may have been delayed by the line in a doughnut shop or they may have thought it wasn’t an emergency.

U.S. citizens have a right to be protected, even if they have to do it themselves.