I love how these threads always seem to evolve away from the issue of every rand dipshit having access to a gun, in order to low key excuse the assholes who think they need them to do shit.
June is gonna be interesting not only for Roe v Wade probably getting overturned, but the Supreme Court is also due to rule on NY State vs Bruen, which is a 108 year old gun licensing law in NY on whether states can place restrictions on gun ownership. A number of blue states (CA, Hawaii, etc) have similar laws which would get tossed if SCOTUS rules against NY.
NY currently requires people who want to obtain a conceal carry permit (carry a gun hidden) to show proper cause, like a reason why you need it (i own a business, threats, etc). The challengers were denied permits and went to court saying the 2nd amendment does not require "proper cause" to carry a gun, concealed or not.
The simple reality is that gun ownership expanded dramatically during the 4 years of Trump, especially among minorities who realized they need to protect themselves and not rely on federal government or police, who were clearly turning more and more authoritarian. Its going to be extremely difficult to turn that back. Even todays shooting is going to cause gun sales to soar over the next few days, happens every time there is a mass shooting.
It will be interesting if more and more states put up gun control, restriction, licensing, etc laws and get it challenged in the supreme court, its extreme hypocrisy for the supreme court to claim state rights for abortion but then turn around and claim 2nd Amendment/federal override on any sort of state-driven gun control. No surprise though.
