@Lana Notice that every accusation in this toot is a confession.

Hypocrisy is a feature and not a bug for these people.

They will be devious, hate-filled, silence critics, threaten consequences, deport, engage in treason, act out of fake concern, spit, put people on kill lists, incite violence, promote chaos, arrest, ban, and murder.

Unfortunately, I suspect the time for peaceful protest and an airing of grievances has passed. #SecondAmendment #Tyranny

The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, examined the 13-year period after the June 2010 #SCOTUS ruling that the #SecondAmendment, which protects the right to bear arms, applies to state & local #GunControl laws. The decision effectively limited the ability of #state & #local #governments to regulate #firearms.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834530

“We decline to wield the #Constitution to declare that #military-style armaments, which have become primary instruments of #MassKilling & #terrorist attacks in the #UnitedStates, are beyond the reach of our nation’s democratic processes,” Judge Wilkinson added.

The #law’s ban on what critics call #AssaultWeapons ban did not violate the #SecondAmendment because rapid-firing long guns “are #military-style weapons designed for sustained #combat operations that are ill-suited & disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh, who could have supplied the fourth vote needed to add the case to the court’s docket, issued a statement saying the question was significant & could soon warrant review but that he hoped additional opinions from lower courts could assist the justices on the issue. He wrote that #SCOTUS “should & presumably will address the #AR15 issue soon, in the next term or two.”

“I doubt we would sit idly by if lower courts were to so subvert our precedents involving any other constitutional right,” [ummm what?] he wrote. “Until we are vigilant in enforcing it, the right to bear arms will remain ‘a second-class right.’” [#hypocrisy]

Justices #Alito & #Gorsuch said they too would have heard the case but did not provide reasons.

“I would not wait to decide whether the government can ban the most popular rifle in America,” #ClarenceThomas wrote. “That question is of critical importance to tens of millions of law-abiding #AR15 owners throughout the country. We have avoided deciding it for a full decade.”

He added that the court’s commitment to the #SecondAmendment was inadequate.

The Maryland law was enacted in 2013 in response to the #MassShooting at #SandyHook Elementary School in Connecticut the previous year. It banned many semiautomatic rifles & imposed a 10-round limit on #GunMagazines.

In dissent, Justice #ClarenceThomas said the court should have considered the question, which the justices have repeatedly declined to resolve.

@xankarn
I think this is partly why so many #Republicans who scream "READ THE CONSTITUTION!" have never actually read The #Constitution.

They make nonsense claims like "The #SecondAmendment is the one that protects all the rest" (as if the #FoundingFathers gave everyone the right to SHOOT THEM if they disagreed.)

It's actually the FIRST Amendment (Protest, redress of grievances & assemble) that "protects the rest".

Now they want to *abolish* any Amendment they dislike (ie: the 14th & 22nd.)

@GottaLaff
If #Democrats treated the #SecondAmendment the way #Republicans WILLINGLY accept limits on the FIRST, they'd be storming the Capitol (once again.)

I roll my eyes when Gun Nuts try to claim (incorrectly) that "the 2nd Amendment is the one that protects all the rest" (no, that's actually the 1st) when they SO willingly accept abridging "all the rest" (or even ABOLISHING the ones they don't like, such as the 14th & the 22nd.)

Of course, #DonaldTrump won't abolish the #SecondAmendment, and even if it wasn't #Trump, the #NRA won't let anyone do that. We've seen them fight teeth and claws to keep enabling people to kill others, fighting #MarchForOurLives and #NeverAgainMSD, founded by #MarjoryStonemanDouglasHighSchoolParklandSchoolShooting survivors Lauren and Hogg, and their peers Cameron Kasky and Lauren Tilley

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Yes, well.

In the right () hands, the #SecondAmendment IS a legal invitation to control the #USA with fascist #DeathSquads.

Shit should have never been in the #Constitution of a democratic country in the first place.