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Old Crank

(6,290 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:10 AM Jul 2023

Just can't wait for the pro gun court

To come up with the answer to this.
Between the previous decision and the enhanced harasser rights case what will they do? Give gun wavers absolute rights until they pull the trigger with the weapon pointed at someone?


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-a-second-amendment-case-at-the-supreme-court-is-putting-gun-rights-groups-in-a-jam/ar-AA1dKIrX?ocid=AMZN


witnessed him dragging his girlfriend through a parking lot.

Months later, after getting into an accident, Rahimi repeatedly shot at the other driver, court records show. A year later, he threatened another woman with a gun and was charged with aggravated assault. In 2021, he fired several times into the air after a friend's credit card was declined at a burger joint near Fort Worth, Texas.


Rahimi's case is now before the Supreme Court in a blockbuster Second Amendment challenge that may prove especially thorny for the gun lobby and the court's conservative wing. That's because Rahimi is challenging his conviction under a federal law that bars Americans who are subject to restraining orders from owning guns.

“The facts of this case make it really unpalatable for them to have to stand up and say, 'No, we believe that domestic abusers have a Second Amendment right to their firearms,'" said Nick Suplina, senior vice president for law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. “Politically speaking, that's deeply unpopular.”

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progressoid

(52,066 posts)
1. Seems to me that this court doesn't give a flying fuck whether something is deeply unpopular
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:35 AM
Jul 2023

Frasier Balzov

(4,605 posts)
2. Guns above everything else. That's what this ideology is.
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:36 AM
Jul 2023

Rights mean nothing in an environment like this.

AllaN01Bear

(27,550 posts)
3. the only reason you pull a gun is to use it. u better be prepaird to use it,
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 04:09 AM
Jul 2023

or i will disarm you hand to hand if nessacary. and by meaning to use it is to pull the trigger.

maxsolomon

(37,497 posts)
6. Foregone conclusion.
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 12:20 PM
Jul 2023

Guns must be free without 'fringement.

The 2nd is binary; there are no gray areas. Full-Automatics for all!

Straw Man

(6,905 posts)
8. There's something here that really doesn't make sense.
Fri Jul 14, 2023, 04:38 AM
Jul 2023

What happened in those other instances? They're all felonies and should be automatic disqualifiers for firearms ownership, independent of the restraining order. No convictions?

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