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Other voices: A gun-control win
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/2015/06/17/voices-gun-control-win/28890845/
This month the court rejected yet another National Rifle Association attempt to loosen gun restrictions, this time in San Francisco. The law passed in 2007 requires handgun owners to either store their guns in a safe or disable them with a trigger lock.
Who wouldn’t want to do this, especially in a home with children? Well, Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, the dissenters, and the NRA. But we suspect there’s a pretty strong consensus among the public that it’s common sense.
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Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed with the court’s decision not to hear the case, writing that the lower court’s ruling was “in serious tension” with Heller. Yet in that decision, Thomas’s conservative colleague Antonin Scalia wrote: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”(emphasis added)
This month the court rejected yet another National Rifle Association attempt to loosen gun restrictions, this time in San Francisco. The law passed in 2007 requires handgun owners to either store their guns in a safe or disable them with a trigger lock.
Who wouldn’t want to do this, especially in a home with children? Well, Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, the dissenters, and the NRA. But we suspect there’s a pretty strong consensus among the public that it’s common sense.
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Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed with the court’s decision not to hear the case, writing that the lower court’s ruling was “in serious tension” with Heller. Yet in that decision, Thomas’s conservative colleague Antonin Scalia wrote: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”(emphasis added)
The last line says it all.
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This shit needs to stop. We're living a fucking nightmare that, as President Obama said yesterday "Doesn't happen
in other developed nations". Not, at least, with NEARLY this level of regularity. It's insane. 