A deputy U.S. marshal used a firearm to thwart an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., while protecting the residence of notoriously anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Eighteen-year-old Kentrell Flowers allegedly pulled a gun on one of the two deputy U.S. marshals parked outside of Sotomayor’s residence around 1:15 a.m., The New York Post reported. Sotomayor was reportedly not home at the time of the incident.
One marshal reportedly drew a firearm and shot the suspect, who was later treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the report. Flowers has been charged with “armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large capacity magazine,” the New York Post reported.
Notably, during Sotomayor’s nomination hearing she claimed to have accepted the Supreme Court’s earlier decision establishing the individual right to keep and bear arms in District of Columbia v. Heller.
“I understand … how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans,” Sotomayor testified. “And I have friends who hunt. I understand the individual right fully that the Supreme Court recognized.”
As with most left-wing hacks, once in office her tune changed. Sotomayor signed onto the 2010 dissent in McDonald v. Chicago to argue the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to self-defense.
“The carrying of arms for [self-defense] often puts others’ lives at risk,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the minority. “In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of
