Supreme Court upholds domestic violence gun restriction
NBCJUN 2024
SCOTUS Upholds Gun Ban for Domestic Abusers
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The Spin
Left narrative
The reckless 2022 ruling blew up decades of settled case law on gun violence, and SCOTUS is now having to deal with the damage. To save face, the Supreme Court wrote an incoherent ruling that attacks a lower court for correctly applying a precedent it set. While domestic abusers will be kept away from guns, this ruling does nothing to deal with the fallout of the historical and destructive expansion of gun rights by this court.
Right narrative
This ruling was a perversion of the Second Amendment and the due process rights of every American. Domestic abusers can already be stripped of their firearms through criminal prosecution. It allows a mere protective order, which doesn't require a conviction, to make someone a second-class citizen. It's also clear that there's no direct historical twin to this law, and the judges erred on the side of good public relations over good jurisprudence.