A federal judge in Florida ruled a U.S. law that prohibits people from having firearms in post offices to be unconstitutional, the latest court decision declaring gun restrictions violate the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump appointee, cited the 2022 Supreme Court ruling “New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen” that expanded gun rights. The 2022 ruling recognized the individual’s right to bear a handgun in public for self-defense.
The judge shared her decision in the indictment that charged Emmanuel Ayala, U.S. Postal Service truck driver, with illegal possession of a firearm in a federal building.
This whole Bruen standard is revisionist history at it’s worst too. For example states were straight up banning conceal carry in the decades after the Constitution was written and ratified.
If we did that now they’d come up with some bullshit story about Paul Revere or something.
Also their logic for everything doesn’t scale. They’ll say, “sure! post offices are a-ok!” but then be like “well obviously you shouldn’t be able to bring a loaded handgun into the cabin of a commercial flight, or attend a presidential speech with a sniper rifle.” And their gun friendly politicians definitely ban guns at their rallies and conventions.
And everybody loves being an originalist on the issue until you start talking about the whole “well regulated militia” component of the amendment.
I live in the EU now and sure we have illegal guns in this country, but the fact is that the firearm homicide rate per capita is 27 times higher in the US than it is here. And gun suicides rates are over 30 times higher per capita in the US. When someone gets shot here it’s big fucking news. You don’t have to worry about some kind of drunken social transgression erupting into gunfire.
The US is fucking ridiculous on this topic.
It’s easy to understand the US if you look at politicians like race drivers… With sponsor patches on their suits.