Posted on 05/19/2022 9:12:04 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Recent events in New York have brought the grim realities of America’s gun violence problem into sharp relief. In both instances the perpetuators took advantage of the nation’s lax gun laws and legally purchased firearms whose lethality would have been unimaginable to the authors of the Second Amendment. The easily modified semi-automatic AR-15 used by the white supremacist shooter who killed ten people in Buffalo on Saturday was two hundred times more lethal than the revolutionary muskets that helped win the American Revolution. This attack came one month after a shooter with a Glock 9-millimeter handgun injured 23 people in a Brooklyn subway. Given these horrific events, it is hard to fathom how the U.S. Supreme Court could be contemplating striking down a century-old New York gun regulation, but based on the oral argument in the case this unthinkable reality seems almost inevitable unless the court comes to its senses, abandons originalist fantasy, and recognizes the long history of gun regulation and enforcement in America, including limits on public carry.
In an eerie foreshadowing of the Brooklyn subway shooting, the Supreme Court debated the theoretical possibility of allowing guns on New York subways in the oral argument of NYSRPA v. Bruen in November. In one notable, and disturbing exchange, Justice Elena Kagan pressed former solicitor general Paul Clement who reluctantly conceded that it might be ok to have such a restriction on the city’s subways. In subsequent colloquy Justice Samuel Alito erroneously suggested that criminals in New York were already widely “packin heat” on the subway, a false claim that New York’s woefully un-prepared solicitor general did not bother to correct when queried.
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Damn....Just read that the shooter was kicked out of the store the day before.....which means he was in Town...sleeping in his car?? or a motel??
I’m totally p***** that no one called the cops the day before...when they kicked him out. Just getting his license number might have stopped this...if the cops spotted him and approached him in his vehicle.
Per WKBW: 2020 and 2021 were Buffalo’s most violent years in decades with 65 people killed in 2020 and 67 in 2021.
Where has Deep State been?
“..lethality would have been unimaginable to the authors of the Second Amendment.”
Like comparing the telegraph to the internet.
If the 2nd doesn’t protect semi-automatics, the 1st doesn’t cover the internet.
There was no horror.......merely New Yorkers being New Yorkers
Waiting for a white nationalist...aka...a white dumb ass...
The Buffalo shooter picked Buffalo because of the strict gun laws. He didn’t want to be interrupted while he did his awful deed.
Assertion without evidence. How do they know it's false?
I was not talking about a possible future event, but rather one of the the principles underpinning the Second Amendment: that the citizenry has the right to be as well armed as their government.
That civilian citizens can are not and cannot be as well armed as our military does not, in my view, negate that principle, though. Nor does it mean everyone should be able go out and buy missiles and grenade launchers and whatnot. Being well-enough armed to resist should the unthinkable happen is sufficient.
“False claim”
Well, the subway shooter was actually on the platform, not on the train, so…..
Back in the day, a lot of those squirrel guns were ghost guns.
They would also have been shocked at the power and lethality of the MSM ‘press’ today compared to the then-contemporary citizen printing presses with regard to the First Amendment. Perhaps we should call for drastic controls on the ‘press’ and make journalists, publishers, et al get licenses, background checks, waiting periods etc...
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Make them set type by hand.
And then ban lead.
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