With Justice Brett Kavanaugh now on the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump continues making good on his pledge to use Supreme Court nominations to save the Second Amendment from “people like Hillary Clinton.”

During an October 9, 2016, presidential debate, Trump said, “I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. … People that will respect the Constitution of the United States. And I think that this is so important–also, the Second Amendment, which is totally under siege by people like Hillary Clinton.”

Trump made clear that his Supreme Court picks will “respect the Second Amendment and what it stands for, and what it represents.”

Trump has fulfilled these promises by giving us Justice Neil Gorsuch, confirmed April 7, 2017, and Brett Kavanaugh, confirmed October 6, 2018.

Both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are guided by the seminal decision in District of Columbia v Heller (2008).

During confirmation hearings, Gorsuch referenced Heller in describing the approach to ruling on the constitutional protections of specific types of guns, saying:

Heller makes clear that we judges are to apply. The question is whether it’s a gun in common use, for self-defense–and that may be subject to reasonable regulation. That’s the test as I understand it. There’s lots of ongoing litigation about which weapons qualify under those standards. And I can’t pre-judge that litigation sitting here.

Kavanaugh also referenced Heller’s “common use” phraseology during this confirmation, explaining that AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles are in “common use” because widely possessed. Kavanaugh differentiated between “dangerous and unusual weapons” versus weapons widely possessed for hunting and self-defense, saying, “Semiautomatic rifles are widely possessed in the United States. There are millions and millions and millions of semiautomatic rifles that are possessed, so that seemed to fit common use and not be a dangerous and unusual weapon.”

The NRA responded to Kavanaugh’s conformation by tweeting: “The NRA congratulates Brett Kavanaugh on his confirmation to SCOTUS. Kavanaugh is an eminently qualified jurist who will interpret the Constitution as the framers intended. He respects our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

And the loons:

A large crowd of protesters has surged onto the front steps of the US Supreme Court, chanting, “Kavanaugh has got to go.” Brett Kavanaugh is inside, where he will be sworn in. https://t.co/POLG1Y9RPr pic.twitter.com/Y9JfBzjkZj

— CNN (@CNN) October 6, 2018

First lady of the United States Melania Trump is wrapping up her solo tour of four countries in Africa —  Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt — where’s she’s taken the opportunity to promote her children’s welfare initiative.

Her plans for her “Be Best” program are to “champion the many successful well-being programs that provide children with the tools and skills required for emotional, social, and physical health.”

“The campaign will also promote established organizations, programs, and people who are helping children overcome some of the issues they face growing up in the modern world,” the program states.

On Tuesday morning, the first lady began her trip in Accra, Ghana, where she was greeted by the first lady of the Republic of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, and the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy to Ghana, Christopher Lamora, according to the White House.

Local schoolchildren also gave Mrs. Trump a warm welcome, waving American and Ghanaian flags.

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During her time in Ghana, the first lady visited the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, also known as Ridge Hospital, which is assisted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and especially supports maternal, newborn, and child health.

Before she left, Mrs. Trump made personally selected donations of baby blankets, toys, and baby care supplies to the hospital.

For whatever reason, Mrs. Trump’s welfare initiative has just invited more critics of her, with the left grasping for ways to somehow turn her trip into something harmful. They’re actually expressing offense at her sartorial choices, getting especially nasty about the safari helmet the former model wore while she was on a guided safari.

But that’s just Americans talking. Somehow I don’t think the people she met with on her trip were bothered.

It seems that Mrs. Trump can’t avoid being relentlessly bashed for whatever she does, even when it’s something as great as promoting the well being of children. Imagine how different the treatment she’s getting would be if she were a Democrat doing all this.

The first lady mostly kept her traveling look simple and stylish. For the second day of her trip, she dressed in an army jacket with her sleeves pushed up and paired it with khaki slacks. She added a pair of flats to the ensemble while she traveled along the coast of Ghana. She finished off her easy but classy style with her hair worn down.

The President vocalized his appreciation of the first lady’s efforts, tweeting on Thursday, “Our country’s great First Lady, Melania, is doing really well in Africa. The people love her, and she loves them! It is a beautiful thing to see.”

Our country’s great First Lady, Melania, is doing really well in Africa. The people love her, and she loves them! It is a beautiful thing to see.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2018

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While in Ghana, she also had an an audience at Emintsimadaze Palace before Cape Coast’s Paramount Chief, Osabarimba Kwesi Atta II and chieftains, as is custom before being granted permission to visit the Cape Coast Castle.  The castle was one of 40 used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The first lady placed a wreath of flowers outside a dungeon door, telling press it was “very emotional.”

“This is a very special place,” Mrs. Trump said. “I will never forget the incredible experience and the stories that I heard from the gentleman. The dungeons that I saw … what happened so many years ago, it’s really a tragedy.”

“I want to thank the people of Ghana for such a wonderful visit and the opportunity to learn about their history and culture,” said Mrs.Trump in a statement. “My time in your country was filled with so many meaningful stops.”

The ever-gracious first lady is finishing up her tour and will be heading back to the U.S.

“We care, and we want to show the world that we care, and I’ve partnered and am working with USAID,” she said to the press on Saturday at her final stop in Egypt. “And that’s what I want to share, that we care.”

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The Kavanaugh confirmation circus may be finally — mercifully — behind us, but one pattern has emerged from that saga: The left has doubled-down on deranged rhetoric.

As Judge Brett Kavanaugh faced a slew of unproven allegations that kept increasing in their tabloid trashiness, liberals seemed to revel in divisive rhetoric like pigs in mud.

It wasn’t enough that the accusations be taken seriously and investigated. No, liberals went all in on pushing insulting narratives as far as they could go, with the media gleefully joining in.

USA Today, for example, tripped over itself to push a false narrative of family man Kavanaugh as a pedophile, with no evidence.

Meanwhile, Sen. Mazie Hirono told men to “shut up” because they were the wrong gender while protesters mobbed and harassed conservatives. They even accused Republican Sen. Susan Collins of being a “rape apologist.”

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Just when you thought the vile rhetoric couldn’t get any worse, Al Sharpton showed up on the scene.

During a Friday appearance on NBC’s “Dateline,” the well-known race hustler declared that Trump supporters are people who “go to the lynching after clothing themselves in morality.”

“I think that we’re dealing with a bully,” Sharpton said, talking about Trump. “Let’s not forget these people would go to church and then go to the lynching after clothing themselves in morality. And that’s what we’re seeing today.”

Yes, the prominent liberal just compared voting Republican and supporting a judge who appears completely innocent to stringing up black people — the very same people, it’s worth noting, that the Republican Party of Lincoln fought to free.

The depravity of this statement is so bad, it’s hard to even know where to start. Even setting aside how clearly divisive and insulting it is, the most glaring issue is that it’s 180-degrees opposite from reality.

Over in real life, a place Sharpton hasn’t visited in a long time, it was largely his own Democrat party that perpetuated heinous lynchings in pre-civil rights America. The KKK was a racist Democrat group, a fact that liberals are desperate to sweep under the rug.

Take a look at the voting results for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the pivotal laws that helped protect black rights. “More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats,” admitted CNN in a retrospective about the legislation’s 50th anniversary.

“Virginia’s Democratic Rep. Howard W. Smith was a staunch segregationist and strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act,” CNN continued.

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On the other hand, it was Republicans who risked their political futures to make sure the historical equality legislation got passed.

“Ohio’s Republican Rep. William McCulloch had a conservative track record,” explained CNN. “His district (the same one now represented by House Speaker John Boehner) had a small African-American population. So he had little to gain politically by supporting the Civil Rights Act. Yet he became a critical leader in getting the bill passed.”

But Sharpton has never let facts and reality get in the way of a good smear.

What is perhaps most ironic is that if we really want to use the “lynching” analogy, it was Kavanaugh’s character and reputation which were unfairly assassinated.

The crimes against African Americans that Sharpton is so eager to bring up were great injustices because mobs of people tossed aside the presumption of innocence, and rushed to punish without waiting for evidence or courts. Sound familiar?

Standing up against emotional rash judgements and mob justice is something that black Americans should agree on, considering how often they bring up the problem of minorities being falsely accused — and imprisoned or shot — without due process. Apparently that concern only applies to specific skin colors.

Blindly believing someone — yes, even a woman — even though she has no evidence or corroborating witnesses is exactly how southern lynchings happened in the first place. Somebody please send Sharpton a copy of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” because he has seriously lost the plot.

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