cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3049053

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

  • Jordan Lund
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    301 year ago

    In the end, it doesn’t really matter what any state court thinks, you know it’s going to the Supremes.

    • Ech
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      101 year ago

      You mean SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States). This is also a Supreme Court, but of a single state.

      • @ExtraMedicated
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        -31 year ago

        What would they do if someone they care about was gunned down? How many more shootings must there be until we find out?

        • @surewhynotlem
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          91 year ago

          Bold of you to think they care about anyone other than themselves

        • @PsychedSy
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          21 year ago

          Honestly? They’d want to kill the murderer. For people with principled pro-gun stances the answer to the “how many x have to get shot” is all of them. All of x have to get shot. Because the argument is about a right to self defense and very few rights come without potential downsides or externalities of some sort.

        • @Guest_User
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          11 year ago

          Ive lost more people to car accidents sadly.

            • @SupraMario
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              -41 year ago

              Neither is acting like the USA is the wild West and that guns just magically cause people to kill each other

              • @SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS
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                21 year ago

                Comparing firearms to cars is a bad argument because cars are designed for transportation and guns are designed to kill. America tests and licenses drivers because driving is a privilege. Bearing arms is a right. Comparing guns to cars weakens your argument and makes all firearms owners (myself included) look bad because they are very different things.

                I get where you’re coming from. Traffic accidents and gun violence both cause death but comparing them does not help our cause.