Opinion by Colbert I. King: The Supreme Court found a way to make our gun problem worse
June 24, 2022 at 3:39 p.m. EDTPlaceholder while article actions load
The Supreme Court has now expanded the Second Amendment to the extent of requiring that states allow concealed handguns to be carried for self-defense in public. That ought to concern every American who walks the streets.
that such rules can stand for now. Will they, consistent with the views of the four-judge Thomas faction, be limited or even thrown out in future rulings?Advertisement D.C., as with jurisdictions across the nation, knows all too well the dangers associated with concealed guns. Lethal weapons are found in waistbands, pants pockets, underwear and socks. They are out in public, stashed behind trash cans, under porches and rocks. And those concealed guns are mostly illegal.
Besides the uses to which they are put — e.g., robbing a store, stealing a wallet, taking a life — guns are being fired by people who don’t know, and don’t care to know, the first thing about how to use them except to point and pull the trigger at a target, even one darting amid a crowd. That’s how we get our dead and wounded.
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