NATION: A case decided in the supreme Court , this year, the Bruen decision, has members of SCOTUS looking on the flip side of the open carry rights laws. As President Joe Biden establishes efforts at curtailing gun violence, it seems only a few members of the Republican controlled supreme Court are interested in joining the President in his recently re-adopted mantra ' saving lives.'
By Michelle Crawford-Sapenter
"The deranged logic is that if past generations didn’t see fit to address a problem, we’re doomed to suffer today.." Comments made in regard to the Bruen Decision
According to the Bruen Decision ruling handed down by the US Supreme Court as being a most legitimate manner by which the court might uphold the 2nd amendment of the US constitution, the matter of saving lives comes under fire as the court extend the '2nd A' to support of open carry--meaning the court determined that a person should have the right to carry a firearm beyond the perimeter of their home.
The court ruled further, in regard to a New York city law in which it had been determined that the prospect of open carry would not be approved and would, thereby, be restrictive in association with the licensing for concealed carry. The US Supreme Court 's decision claimed that the city of New York violated the Constitutional rights of its citizens, striking down the restrictions that prohibited concealed carry in public places.
In a recent perusal of the Bruen Decision, Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson questioned whether the reasoning surrounding the extended clauses permitting concealed carry as being sound involving the perception of Supreme Court Justice. Brown-Jackson commented, "Do you read Bruen, as step one, being go to the archives and try to determine whether or not there’s some historical analogue for the kinds of legislation that I’m considering?"
Brown- Jackson referred to the recent mass shooting in Maine and questioned the court petitioning fellow Justices to reflect on how the members of legislature, Mayor and Governor of the state may be faced with approaching a response and more, an answer to the requests by residents , families of victims, for their doing something about gun violence--while the decisions that may be made by political leaders in Maine are thoroughly restricted by the Supreme Court Bruen Decision.
Justice Brown-Jackson's argument involved the most recent case brought before the Supreme Court in regard to the 5th Circuit court trial United States v. Rahimi -a domestic violence case, Justice Brown-Jackson pointed to the matter that now affects the lives of residents in the states of Texas, Louisiniana and Mississippi , Brown-Jackson adding that it is the resident of these states who now have extra added fear to the prospect of domestic violence.
In the recent US v Rahimi case, an appellate court walked back a Supreme Court decision ruling that anyone charged with domestic violence would not be permitted to obtain a license to carry a firearm.
While the Supreme Court controversy in the individual stand on the 2 amendemnt continues, itt is a matter that will receuive some attention by the Biden administration and through the efforts made by the Office of Gun Violence Protection, there mmay be some reprieve in the decision made that , today, continues to pose a threat to life and safety.
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