Activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in the United States v. Rahimi on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
Last year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that domestic abusers subject to qualifying protective orders must be allowed to purchase and carry firearms. You read that right. Inthe court ruled that the Constitution requires that abusers who have already been deemed a threat be permitted to buy and carry a gun if they so choose.
To subject an imperfect but vastly more equal modern world today to the laws of a world where slavery was legal, people had no electricity and penicillin hadn’t yet been invented is an absolute farce. And asdemonstrates, this test threatens to puncture vast holes in the already fragile system of gun safety. While the court undid this profound failure instands largely intact and its dangerous logic looms large.
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