Hawaii shocked the nation with perhaps the most incompetently cobbled-together justification in history for violating the Constitution .
On Wednesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in State v. Wilson that citizen and firearm user Christopher Wilson had violated state laws by publicly carrying a gun without a state permit. It stated that while the state justices acknowledged that both its constitutions’ interpretations of the Second Amendment are the same, they just chose to ignore it:
“We read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court. We hold that in Hawaii there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.”
With the writing prose of the most amateur college freshman protester, the court justified a direct violation of the Second Amendment by trying to say that the nation’s most fundamental cornerstone law does not apply to it.
Hawaii did this with two interesting claims: laws that are old are simply null and inapplicable, and the pre-American Hawaiian kingdom maintained an unwritten zero-arms policy.