A tiny minority holds 336 million Americans at gunpoint

[marmar]

A tiny minority holds 336 million Americans at gunpoint

BARRINGTON SALMON
JULY 11, 2024 4:18 AM


If anyone doubted the downward spiral of our country, one look at the U.S. Supreme Court would disabuse them of the notion.

For the past two, three years, “The Leonard Leo Six” — as MSNBC political commentator and “The Reidout” host Joy Reid describes them — have taken a flame thrower to the rights and freedoms of women, African Americans, and other constituencies, shattered the country’s judicial infrastructure, and tossed out decades-long precedent and settled law.

During the recently concluded term, in a fusillade of decisions, the conservative supermajority eviscerated the regulatory powers of the federal government; continued its barely concealed hostility towards African Americans and voting rights; undermined reproductive justice and abortion care; and made it more difficult to charge Jan. 6 rioters with attempted obstruction of the electoral vote count.

In a June 14 ruling, the high court struck down a 2018 ban on bump stocks despite public outrage and the devastating implications for Americans. The arch-conservative Republican bloc gave its blessing to anyone with access to an AR-15-style rifle to use bump stocks — if they so choose — to enable the weapon to fire 400 to 800 rounds a minute. The justices are indifferent about sanctioning more shedding of the blood of innocents by heavily armed, evil, or mentally unstable individuals. ...............(more)

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[sanatanadharma]

1. When the 2nd amendment was written, the gun ownership was not religion

When the 2nd amendment was written, the people of the time did not know gun-ownership as a religious experience.
Today, for some, the gun is a sacred object.

[Wednesdays]

2. And guns were muzzle-loaders with ramrods

which would fire off a shot a minute, at best. Hardly the stuff of mass shootings.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. and pichforks , shovels , cutlasses , raipiers etc.

[dchill]

4. And life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

...had a lot to do with bootlegging.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. si.

[Wednesdays]

6. Yes, I remember them well...

All the mass murders involving pitchforks, shovels, cutlasses, and rapiers.

Not.

[orthoclad]

7. Chaos is good for business

This will inspire a whole greater industry of body armor - like the bulletproof backpacks for school children.

But mainly, this will give the already-militarized police a good argument for more armor and tanks and machine guns and sniper rifles and surveillance, with more training by the IDF. Of course, they won't use these weapons against 2A fans, but any demonstrations against police brutality or pipelines will see casualties.