Supreme Court to Decide First-Ever Gun-Carry Case
We&#x27;re almost in the era of minority rule in the United Stated. The only bright spot here is we&#x27;re in the death throes of conservative exceptionalism. But still the undue influence that group has due to gerrymandering, systemic voter suppression and disproportionate state representation is depressing.<p>The Supreme Court is meant to be one of the safeguards here. To his credit, while the conservatives were 5-4 John Roberts actually tried to fight the appearance of partisanship by the Court because faith in the institution matters. But now? The Conservatives have long put off taking up Second Amendment cases not because they weren&#x27;t important but because they might not go their way. Now with a solid 6-3 majority, they seem prepared to foist that world view down our collective throats.<p>If you want an analog of this, look at how the Redeemer court effectively dismantled post-Emancipation protections in the decades following [1].<p>There&#x27;s so many problems with the Second Amendment zealots it&#x27;s hard to know where to begin.<p>First, the &quot;right&quot;. Well, it&#x27;s not absolute. If it was, it wouldn&#x27;t be denied to felons and there wouldn&#x27;t be background checks or waiting periods. Nor would there be a restriction on what &quot;arms&quot; the citizens could &quot;keep and bear&quot;. Why not fully automatic weapons? Surface to air missiles? Nuclear weapons? Nerve gas? Biological weapons?<p>As soon as you concede the right isn&#x27;t absolute you&#x27;re just debating what limits there should be.<p>There&#x27;s also the Second Amendment specifically noting a &quot;well-regulated Militia&quot;. That nuance has been conveniently forgotten about.<p>The US had 45 mass shootings in a month recently [2]. 45.<p>The disastrous War on Drugs created the drug cartels. What do those cartels fight with in their territories? Guns easily obtained in the US. That&#x27;s how the drug trade works: drugs into the US, money and guns out.<p>What&#x27;s amazing is the US has collectively thrown its hands up saying &quot;there&#x27;s nothing we can do&quot; to a problem literally no one else has.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;redemption-court&#x2F;566963&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;redemption...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;us&#x2F;mass-shootings-45-one-month&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;us&#x2F;mass-shootings-45-one-mont...</a>