Shades on Nostr: by #MadisonPauly in #MotherJones: "For nearly 30 years, federal law has banned people ...
by #MadisonPauly in #MotherJones:
"For nearly 30 years, federal law has banned people who have domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing guns. It’s a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are 5 times more likely to be killed than those whose partners don’t have guns available. About a third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, most of whom use firearms to carry out the violence.
"Then, last February, a conservative federal appeals court in the South chose gun rights over domestic violence survivors’ lives, siding with an alleged abuser who argued that a gun prohibition attached to his restraining order violated the Second Amendment. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to take up the case. On Friday, as it handed down a slew of controversial decisions, the court announced it will hear United States v. Rahimi during its next term, which begins in October."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/federal-law-domestic-violence-gun-restrain-order-scotus/
#DomesticViolence #guns #SecondAmendment #2ndAmendment #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
"For nearly 30 years, federal law has banned people who have domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing guns. It’s a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are 5 times more likely to be killed than those whose partners don’t have guns available. About a third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, most of whom use firearms to carry out the violence.
"Then, last February, a conservative federal appeals court in the South chose gun rights over domestic violence survivors’ lives, siding with an alleged abuser who argued that a gun prohibition attached to his restraining order violated the Second Amendment. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to take up the case. On Friday, as it handed down a slew of controversial decisions, the court announced it will hear United States v. Rahimi during its next term, which begins in October."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/federal-law-domestic-violence-gun-restrain-order-scotus/
#DomesticViolence #guns #SecondAmendment #2ndAmendment #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS