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NY: Supreme Court firearms decision puts crime-fighting Adams under the gun
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Can’t we take comfort that only law-abiding folk will be eligible? As Justice Brett Kavanaugh reminded us, New York will still be able to rely on “prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons.”
This is naïve. The Supreme Court has normalized carrying a gun. That means more people will do it.
As carrying a gun around becomes normal behavior, like carrying your phone — that’s the way it is in parts of the south and west — it will be harder to prosecute felons for carrying an illegal gun.
The law is the law, sure — but laws exist to enforce social norms. If toting a handgun to the supermarket is no longer antisocial or strange behavior, felons carrying weapons will no longer be subverting a social norm. |
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shootergdv
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| Part of the problem NOW is that woke prosecutors are NOT charging and jailing "felons with guns" . Laws should be used against criminals, not used to turn the rest of us into criminals. |
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