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New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen
“…The majority opinion, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, held that New York’s “proper cause” requirement for obtaining a concealed carry license violated the Constitution. Thomas wrote that the law “prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.”
New York’s concealed carry restrictions, enacted more than a hundred years ago, required those who wish to carry a concealed weapon for self-defense to show “proper cause” rather than have a presumption of the right to carry. Similar laws exist in Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland, and California, where this ruling will have a huge ripple effect.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority, with Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting.
“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,’” Thomas wrote in the opinion. “The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.”…”
Notable Supreme Court decision on gun rights just dropped –
Justice Thomas: "the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home."https://t.co/EiCL9RBZQu
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) June 23, 2022
Update:
Some Democrats seem to be making the argument that this decision will result in wild west type gunfights in downtown areas. Is that the case in the 43 states that already have shall-issue carry?
Isn’t the real problem Democrat policies in inner-city areas? Areas that have long been governed by Democrats. Areas where black on black crime is out of control and getting worse. Areas where Democrat attacks on police have reduced policing in troubled neighborhoods.
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Of course, this was May 2008. Bush was president.
You asked, we listened.🌭The R&D team hasn't slept all week and now the factory will be cranking out these babies 24/6. Just in time for July 4th!
An American tradition your Bubbie will love.#GefilteDogs #GefilteBeef pic.twitter.com/Wtg1mZCAYL— Manischewitz (@ManischewitzCo) June 22, 2022
People ask. Lots of people ask.
— Manischewitz (@ManischewitzCo) June 23, 2022
ICYMI: Top Voter Midterm Issues vs Top Legacy Media Issues
Gasoline blows up. Was # 5. Look at it today.
Be kind, retweet and blow legacy media minds … pic.twitter.com/ihduCXImNK
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 21, 2022
Related:
The media bubble is real: Study shows massive disconnect between journalists, public
“…Housing sales are dropping fast, but housing values are, on a regional basis, holding steady – for now. However, the banks and lending institutions are preparing for those values, and the contained equity, to drop and disappear precipitously.
Today Bloomberg is reporting that JPMorgan Chase is shifting around 1,000 employees in the mortgage side of finance with some being laid-off and others being reassigned to different parts of the bank and financial services. This should not come as a surprise, but it does align with other less noticeable moves in the banking and home loan sector…”
Monthly payments at the current average rate of 5.78% soar 51% in the U.S. from the same time last year
Related:
Demand for adjustable-rate mortgages surges, as interest rates make biggest jump in 13 years
If you allow your young children to be vaccinated, it’s on you. There’s a lot of data that suggests it is completely unnecessary and may be counter productive.
If I remember correctly the last Republican mayor left office in 1931. Chicago is a Democrat war zone.
How Germany went “green” in 4 easy steps
1. Shut down clean nuclear
2. Move to unreliable wind/solar
2. Become reliant on Russian natural gas
3. Fire up dirty coal again pic.twitter.com/Jf8XsSK4rg— Joseph Brown (@heresyfinancial) June 21, 2022
“…Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man. Yet few places are as fundamentally artificial, if measured by its dependency on human intervention, as California.
So why do California’s progressives, and so many others, yearn for what the historian Leo Marx dubbed the “pastoral ideal”? Much has to do with the state’s rapid population growth from 1.5 million in 1900 to nearly 40 million today, which resulted in a regime of environmental rapine that many still living experienced.
California would not exist in anything like its modern form without massive engineering. Largely dominated by desert, flammable, dry chaparral and high mountains, California depends on human-created technology to bring water to its bone-dry coast. It taps distant dams for the bulk of its electricity and food and would have never grown its population without this manufactured transformation of its natural environment. “Science,” as the University of California’s second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, put it, “is the mother of California.”…
…Equally missing is a clear appreciation of the economic effects of the state’s green policies. Historically, California’s public works—the freeways, aqueduct, power stations—were designed to grow the opportunity horizon for the majority by boosting the economy, creating opportunities for new production, and forging new communities. The current policy agenda, in contrast, has proven catastrophic for many middle and working class families.
Attorney Jennifer Hernandez has demonstrated in a recent report for the Breakthrough Institute what she calls “the green Jim Crow.“ Pushed by overwhelmingly white billionaires, these policies have escalated housing and energy prices, driving jobs and people out of the state. This has hurt minorities in particular, she claims, “deepening the state’s shameful legacy of racial injustice.”…”
