(Credit: AP) In a dissent that could have been ripped from the NRA’s playbook, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed that gun owners are being treated unfairly by America’s court system. in a dissent on a gun-related case on Tuesday, one that got many things about our current gun control debate woefully wrong. “The Second Amendment protects ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,’ and the Fourteenth Amendment requires the States to respect that right,” Thomas wrote in a dissenting opinion in the matter of Silvester v.