The Supreme Court is steering us toward dark days
Jesus warned what happens when you pour new wine into old wineskins. But we won’t listen.
Not long after guns became the top killer of kids and teenagers, the Supreme Court decided to cement into law a cartoonish version of the Second Amendment which could cause more guns to flow more openly in more places in a nation saturated with guns. It’s during an era in which South Carolina has experienced more mass shootings than just four states this year and recently set a new high for annual homicides.
The Court’s ruling came on the heels of yet another massacre in an elementary school in Texas, a white supremacist shooting up a grocery store in a black neighborhood in New York, and so many other mass shootings it is getting hard to keep up with them all. Guns are being used to mow down young black men at alarming rates as well as older white men. It’s happening so frequently it’s hard to not become numb to the bloodshed even though our high gun violence rate is an outlier in the industrialized world.
According to the conservative justices, the effect of so many guns in so many places must not be the concern of a court majority uprooting a century-old New York gun control measure that will have ramifications before the Big Apple. They’ve conjured a contrived reading of the U.S. Constitution in which historical relevance trumps all other considerations. Never mind that they make no distinction between weapons that were in existence at the time the Second Amendment was written. Then, the biggest threat was a menacing foreign power we had just ousted from power. Now, it is disturbed young men with handguns and assault-style weapons committing massacres in movie theaters and well-armed white supremacists armed to the teeth in an anticipation of a war they are eager to fight.
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