Like most other countries, there is no right to keep and bear arms enshrined into Philippine law. Instead, owning a gun is a privilege subject to whatever whims politicians and government officials want to put in place.
After a shooting at a school last week where two people were killed and eight others were injured, one official is now demanding the ability to go into the homes of licensed gun owners and look to see if their firearms are properly secured.
Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Saturday said the Department of the Interior and Local Government will seek curbs on students’ internet access as well as as authority to inspect how registered guns are secured in homes in the aftermath of a school shooting in South Cotabato that left three dead.
Speaking at a press briefing, Remulla said the gun used in the shooting that also left eight others injured was registered to the father of the 14-year-old student identified as the shooter.He said the father, a Department of Education official, had three registered firearms that were “not secured enough”.
…He later said he wants to ask the Supreme Court to allow the Philippine National Police to go into the homes of owners of licensed firearms.
“There has to be the right for the state to inspect the gun owners’ premises kung tama ang storage nila ng baril (to see if they are storing their guns properly),” he said.
Is Kamala Harris advising Remulla?
As you might recall, when Harris was serving as District Attorney in San Francisco, she proclaimed, “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see that you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
That brazen declaration didn’t go over well in 2007, nor when it resurfaced during her 2024 presidential campaign. But her comments, as well as the more recent assertion from the Philippine official, are a reminder of just how far anti-gunners are willing to go to enforce their edicts. In their view, you not only don’t have a right to own a firearm. You forfeit any right to privacy when and if you’re granted permission to do so by the State.
Thankfully, we have the safeguards of both the Second and Fourth Amendments here. Our ability to keep a firearm at home for self-protection and other lawful purposes isn’t granted by the Second Amendment. It’s a right that pre-exists our Constitution, and one that was important enough to the Founders that they explicitly declared the federal government “shall not” infringe it. Similarly, our right to be secure in our persons and property wasn’t invented in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified. It was a right that existed in the colonies long before they were states.
As longstanding as these rights are, they can still be eroded to the point of irrelevance if we’re not careful. At the moment, things are trending our way in much of the country, but there are still judges and politicians who would gladly adopt the point of view that the Second Amendment is a dead letter and the Fourth Amendment is meaningless… and some of them will be on the ballot this November. We need to vote like our rights depend on it, because in many respects that’s exactly what’s at stake.
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