Posted on 06/28/2023 7:57:45 AM PDT by rellimpank
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to review a lower court ruling that struck down a law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns. Speaking as someone who has represented families of women and children killed by domestic abusers with guns, the potential danger of this decision is hard to overstate. But under recent Supreme Court Second Amendment precedent, that danger is treated as virtually irrelevant.
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--and quote Warren Burger, who became a chief justice because Nixon thought he "looked like one should"--
The right to life is why you should have a gun.
I believe the quote is: the purpose of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Progressives, though, prefer that all men are short and government is tall.
“The right to life...” Stopped reading right there. Including the unborn?
Hey , Stupid, the right to life and the right to own a gun are not mutually exclusive rights Dumb-Dumb.
The right to own guns is the right to life. You don’t truly have the right to live if you don’t have the right to defend your life.
History revisionists...
If a man can’t be trusted with a gun, he shouldn’t be walking around loose without 24/7 supervision.
Abuse men’s rights without due process. Yeah, that seems just when half the women in America are batshit crazy.
The author’s an interesting guy...
So you would allow ANYONE to own a gun?
the stupid is strong with this one...
If abortionists used guns on babies accidentally born alive, the left would have no problem with it.
From Wikipedia:
United States v. Rahimi, No. 21-11001, is a 2023 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit invalidating a federal law prohibiting individuals from possessing firearms while under a restraining order related to domestic abuse.
Zackey Rahimi was issued a civil restraining order by a Texas state court on February 5, 2020, after his ex-girlfriend accused him of assaulting her; the order barred him from engaging in certain harassment-related behaviors towards his ex-girlfriend or her child, as well as owning firearms. Suspecting Rahimi of an unrelated crime, officers executed a search warrant at his home, discovering a rifle and a pistol he admitted to possessing. He was charged and convicted in a federal district court of unlawful firearm possession under U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which prohibits individuals from owning firearms if they are “subject to a court order that restrains [them] from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.”
The revised March 2 opinion included an expanded concurrence from Judge James C. Ho, arguing that “civil protective orders are too often misused as a tactical device in divorce proceedings – and issued without any actual threat of danger”. Judge Wilson went further and argued that Section 922(g)(8) could even put victims of domestic violence “in greater danger than before”, because they would be unable to defend themselves against their abusers with guns, if a judge had issued a “mutual” protective order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Rahimi
With respect to domestic violence restraining orders, the issues of already owning guns (and the obvious evidence of having not used any of them maliciously) and buying a gun are different.
Does the right to life trump the convenience of abortion?
Often those two rights are the same.
Especially when accusations of domestic violence have become routine in any divorce or custody case.
And it gets worse. Friend of mine has been a superior court judge for a very long time. He says 30 years ago or so, you never saw an allegation of child abuse or child sex in a divorce petition. Now, he sees them ALL the time.
Just another shady lawyer tactic. Shouldn't deprive somebody of a constitutional right on that basis.
“THE SECOND AMENDMENT PRIMER” by Les Adams is a very interesting book with many quotes most of you are probably unfamiliar with.
Rope, knives and cars can also be used to kill.
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