The Supreme Court just overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the device that let the Las Vegas shooter injure more than 500 people and kill 60 within minutes.
80% of Americans supported the ban — even Trump!
SCOTUS has once again defied the will of the people.
@rbreich to be fair, SCOTUS isn’t supposed to bend to the will of the People. It’s simply supposed to apply the law, according to proper precedent and the Constitution. But hey… they’ve clearly failed there, too!
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Could very well be that they are hoping for another insurrection..
And I am in high hopes that this time we are fully prepared to take care of anyone that tries.
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The ancient Spartans use to abuse and hunt their Helot slave populations to keep them terrorized and intimidated. To the justices, we are just Helots.
Does it sound like a machine gun? Kill like a machine gun?
What a bunch of morons on the Supreme Court. The bump stock “literally” transforms a semi-automatic rifle into a killing machine. How can they parse the words to say it isn’t equivalent?
This is their latest modus operandi… like the Colorado case where their judgment was that the literal words in the constitution regarding being disqualified after participating in an insurrection required further clarifying language that Congress would have to pass.
Funny how now that Congress has been hamstrung to where they can pass nothing that the SCOTUS takes no responsibility in interpreting the laws, but, punts to Congress to pass a law that will never happen in this do nothing Congress.
I’m afraid this is by design and not a feature. Expect to see more of this bullshit coming out of this court. Partisan hacks is all they are.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
There is NOTHING in that amendment that says what KINDS of "Arms" people can "keep and bear." Congress and SCOTUS could regulate the KINDS of "arms" IF both weren't in the pockets of the gun manufacturers.
Not to mention the fact that the "WELL REGULATED" part of this unholy amendment is always ignored.
I'm not a lawyer, but if I was, I'd be challenging this ruling and every other ruling that gives testosterone-laden jerks the ability to purchase armories which they use to take away my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Finally, how does SCOTUS justify having an armed, potentially violent public when the Preamble says the government was formed to "insure domestic tranquility?" #SCOTUS#2ndAmendment#GunViolence#usa
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Harm never need be wished on anyone; however, it is truly ironic how truly well-intended people, committed to making the lives of human beings more enjoyable and healthy, somehow and for some unknown reason are put down. Just think Gandhi, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Shakespeare says the evil men do lives after them; one could add that good men undeservedly often pay the price of death while evil men are spared to continue to promote misery.
You know what, tho? Instead of moaning abt it's decisions, what's needed is laws reflecting & protecting the will of the people that #SCOTUS can't knock down.
Which requires a trifecta in November - House, Senate & WH all in the hands of Dem majorities.
The wisdom of relying on elections to solve the SCOTUS prob & other #GOP generated disasters is becoming ever more clear.
We need better &/or new laws.
And we need to include that fact in all discussions abt SCOTUS & #Election2024.
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Those sweet vacations, private jet flights, sweet real estate deals, motorhomes, private retreats at Nazi camps, and other assorted monetary "gifts" all come with strings attached.
The Republican puppets controlling #SCOTUS have completely corrupted the court.
My own personal opinion is that the problem lies in the legal definition of the term "machine gun" which is currently tied to the functioning of the trigger: does it fire more than one bullet with a single pull of the trigger. Attaching a bump stock to a rifle does not make it do this.
What we need instead is a definition of a machine gun based on the rate of fire acheivable by an average person. Over X shots per second and it is a machine gun.
@rbreich SCOTUS is only supposed to uphold the Constitution. not the will of the people. But once again, SCOTUS has defied the letter and spirit of the law. There. I fixed it.
@rbreich But the Supreme Court member do not live in Las Vegas and have for sure enough security to be safe from someone copying the shooting from Las Vegas in Washington. So: They can decide in a ideological strict way without being confused by human right like the one to live.