Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional
Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional
The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.
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.
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In the end, it doesn't really matter what any state court thinks, you know it's going to the Supremes.
You mean SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States). This is also a Supreme Court, but of a single state.
You mean SCROTUS
Yep and they will over turn it.
What would they do if someone they care about was gunned down? How many more shootings must there be until we find out?
Bold of you to think they care about anyone other than themselves
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.
Ive lost more people to car accidents sadly.
This is not a good argument.
Neither is acting like the USA is the wild West and that guns just magically cause people to kill each other
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.