The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case which gun and domestic violence prevention groups are warning could be a matter of life and death for thousands of abuse victims and their families.
Tuesday’s hearing on United States v Rahimi is seen as one of the most consequential cases with which the nine justices will grapple this term. At stake is how far the new hard-right supermajority of the court will go in unraveling the US’s already lax gun laws, even as the country reels from a spate of devastating mass shootings.
Also at stake, say experts, are the lives of thousands of Americans, overwhelmingly women, threatened with gun violence at the hands of their current or former intimate partners.
I wish the Founders were more explicit about the responsibilities of citizens when they bear arms. Maybe they thought the Militia clause explained it plainly, as citizens needed to be armed in order to protect their towns when asked to, so bearing arms for other purposes clearly wasn’t covered.
Evey other enumerated right in the Constitution is balanced against other responsibilities. The right to Free Speech doesn’t mean you can get away with libel and slander. The right to religious freedom doesn’t mean you can use religion as an excuse to ignore laws. I don’t understand why the right to bear arms is the only one Conservatives see as an absolute right, subordinate to nothing, with no responsibilities attached to it.
Not correct. English Common Law was part of the basis for 2A, and English Common Law allowed people to be armed for self defense. (At the time, “people” meant “male land-owners that fit arbitrary definitions of whiteness”. Thankfully, that definition is more expansive now.)
The right to bear arms doesn’t mean you can own any gun you want. There are already restrictions.
No amount of clarity can defend against willful misinterpretation.
Because without guns, they have no real agency to threaten you follow their rules they want to impose on you. An imaginary sky wizard won’t scare you, but a rifle pointed at you for sure will keep you in line.
We don’t have freedom of speech. We have a fancy platitude on a founding document that means nothing.
LOL at the downvoaters:
You cannot:
incite a riot
slander someone
instigate someone
trade on insider knowledge
Those are just 4 examples off the top of my head. You can read more from a little place called Cornell Law for the knuckle draggers:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/freedom_of_speech
We don’t have absolute freedom of speech. Saying we don’t have freedom of speech because it’s not absolute is simply incorrect.
Debatable.
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You seem to be confused about how words work.