The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case which gun and domestic violence prevention groups are warning could be a matter of life and death for thousands of abuse victims and their families.
Tuesday’s hearing on United States v Rahimi is seen as one of the most consequential cases with which the nine justices will grapple this term. At stake is how far the new hard-right supermajority of the court will go in unraveling the US’s already lax gun laws, even as the country reels from a spate of devastating mass shootings.
Also at stake, say experts, are the lives of thousands of Americans, overwhelmingly women, threatened with gun violence at the hands of their current or former intimate partners.
I’m staying neutral. Some have no intent to use their gun for murder.
Ok. Some do. But, who cares about the victims I guess? I mean, some won’t shoot anybody, so that makes everything ok. Totally balances out with other people getting murdered. Wow, how did we not think of this before!?
What about the victims of false accusations? Do they not deserve any sympathy?
Ok, umm, guess now we can kill even more people, and it’s all gonna balance out? Weeee.
We get it; what you really support is making sure that those you consider to be less than you can be murdered as easy as possible. Truly an admirable quality!