SCOTUS is Really Considering Whether Domestic Abusers Should Have Guns

SCOTUS is Really Considering Whether Domestic Abusers Should have Guns, Slate

So let’s be clear: the U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to consider the case of United States v. Rahimi, determining whether someone with a history of domestic violence may own a gun, is about far more than domestic abuse and its victims. It’s about America’s national security. Our national security.***

Then last February, the U.S. 5^th Circuit reversed the decision, based on new Supreme Court rulings that expanded rights to gun ownership to those “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Since the Founding Fathers hadn’t specifically mentioned domestic violence, they argued, alleged domestic abusers should be free to own the weapons of their choice.

In response, the Biden administration objected, noting that historically, government has refused arms to people who pose a public danger.

So now it is up to the Supreme Court . . . to decide. It is also the same Supreme Court that has loosened gun restrictions already, and that so mercilessly overturned Roe v. Wade, putting the lives of countless American women at risk.

But the point is not the women, or that two-thirds of women killed by a partner are murdered by gun—nearly two every day in America, or that, according to the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, “a woman is five times more likely to be murdered when her abuser has access to guns.”

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