Just a reminder -This bipartisan gun thing is now probably unconstitutional under Bruen

We didn't have permits, red flag laws, or boyfriend loopholes in 1789.

Let's hope Roberts, Kavanaugh and Alito will remember they only concurred if this passes and goes to for a challenge under Thomas' public interest is irrelevant Bruen Standard.

Honestly, I doubt it would, but I'm not a judge pretending to rewrite history to justify a political agenda or make the entire rest of the Constitution subservient to a non-enumerated right to self defense.

When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s “unqualified command.”

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/in-6-3-ruling-court-strikes-down-new-yorks-concealed-carry-law/

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/congress-bipartisan-gun-package-00041701

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TexChik · F

The supreme court, by a large majority, just told the libs that the 2A is off limits and that it will be upheld.

MistyCee

@TexChik It told more than that though, and not just to libs.

It told judges and legislatures that as long as there's no historical precedent justifying it (discounting post 1789 precedents), no other individual rights or public interests should be considered in deciding whether anything that implicates man's right to defend himself against others will matter.

Thankfully, three Justices merely concurred in the result, ie, the statute at issue, so it's not a "large majority" explicitly telling the country that their rights to life are irrelevant as compared to the right to self defense, but you're pretty much right, in that the Court has sent a pretty clear message that governmental interest in protecting human lives are not as important as protecting individual rights to defend themselves.

Congratulations, if you're happy about this development. I'm not, and whether or not I live through this revolution/rejection the ideas that led to civilization, or not, I'm not happy. Just my opinion. I like humanity.

TexChik · F

@MistyCee Again, this government has no interest in protecting human lives. They promote human trafficking and pedophila, they promote killing any child in the womb they can. They stood by and cheered as their radical thugs destroyed and killed during the 8 months prior to the election in 2020. They are in favor of injecting children to prevent puberty, they are in favor of injecting children with mRNA vaccines that are proven to harm and proven not to work, they were in favor of violating the constitution and people's civil rights if they did not subject themselves to the vaccine. They were in favor of denying them food, basic services, or work if they did not get vaccinated. They put covid patients in nursing home knowing it would decimate them. They are buring down food processing plants and are threatening mass violence if their "right" to continue the genocide of the unborn is stripped away by the supreme court. They only want power and wealth. The public interest does not interest them.