Gun Control

[sugar magnolia]

Good guy with a gun or bad guy with a gun? And turn the sound on to get the full effect, including the laughter of the woman with long hair at the end.

[Dave from down under]

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see..

Oh.. it’s gone.. and you aren’t happy…

At least someone was laughing..

[Volkonski]

Supreme Court Upholds Law Disarming Domestic Abusers
The justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to possess a gun.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/p ... 595e2e6e66

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the government may disarm a Texas man subject to a domestic violence order, limiting the sweep of its earlier blockbuster decision that vastly expanded gun rights.

That decision, issued in 2022, struck down a New York law that put strict limits on carrying guns outside the home. It also established a new legal standard for assessing laws limiting the possession of firearms, one whose reliance on historical practices has sown confusion as courts have struggled to apply it, with some judges sweeping aside gun control laws that have been on the books for decades.

The new case, United States v. Rahimi, explored the scope of that new test. Only Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the majority opinion in the 2022 decision, dissented.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that Second Amendment rights had limits.

“When a restraining order contains a finding that an individual poses a credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate partner, that individual may — consistent with the Second Amendment — be banned from possessing firearms while the order is in effect,” he wrote. “Since the founding, our nation’s firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms.”

[Dave from down under]

Me: really??? :S

Me: will it change anything??? Probably no.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-26/ ... /104023902

US surgeon-general declares gun violence a public health emergency amid outbreak of mass shootings

In short: The United States' top doctor has declared gun violence a public health crisis days after seven separate mass shootings broke out across the country.
US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy published an advisory on Tuesday arguing the issue needed to be put in the realm of "public health" and out of politics.
What's next? Dr Murthy has called on the government to implement a range of new gun control measures, but they can only become law with the approval of Congress.

[RTH10260]

THe FL surgeon-general will cancel this warning

[raison de arizona]

That's not what “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me” means. I believe there may be some confusion.

[Dave from down under]

When Australia grew up…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-09/ ... /104050174

28 April 1996

Ps the mass murderer had tried to get an AR-15 for his shooting spree but couldn’t get it easily so he used the AR-10 that he had.