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The Supreme Court Should Back Firearms Restraints That Save Lives
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Mark A. Taff
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At my county coroner’s office, I regularly review cases of murdered women. They are victims of domestic violence, overwhelmingly ones shot to death by ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends or other men they knew. The Supreme Court is now poised to decide whether to put guns more easily into the hands of these abusers-turned-murderers, which would enshrine domestic violence as a warped historical privilege of the U.S. Constitution. Or the Court can make the lifesaving and legally sound decision and protect people such as the murder victims—mothers, daughters and children—I see in those case files. |
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No, they should not. Their only power is to adjudicate what the US Constitution says. All of their decisions need to be based ONLY on what is in the Constitution. Nothing else, at all, ever.
The US Constitution says that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. "Infringed" is a very specific word, containing the word "fringe," meaning the very outside edge of the thing in question. To infringe something is to just barely cross the threshold of that thing.
There is a reason the founders used this word specifically. No one in government should attempt to approach the outermost extreme of limiting a person's right to keep and bear arms. To do so is to infringe that right, which is specifically prohibited.
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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