How a surgeon general's warning and Supreme Court ruling may place gun control on the front burner

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The surgeon general calls gun violence a public health crisis, and Supreme Court conservatives get terrified by a horrific gun owner. Will that lead to more rational gun policies?

For decades, gun control policy in the U.S. has been virtually untouchable — except through efforts to make America's gun culture deadlier, raising the toll of innocent victims. Two recent developments suggest that the ground may finally be shifting toward rationality.

After she got a restraining order against him, he stalked her, threatened a different woman with a gun, was suspected by police of at least five other shootings, fired at motorists in at least two road-rage incidents and fired his gun indiscriminately at least two other times. Police searched his home and found a pistol and a rifle. He was charged under a Texas law that criminalized possessing a gun while under a retraining order due to domestic violence.

 

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