The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.
The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.
The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 – the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.
If you honestly don’t know the difference between a car and a gun and what their purposes are, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Honestly I believe you’re smart enough to understand, so either you’re being disingenuous, or you’re just refusing to allow yourself to go there because you’ve centered your entire personality around instruments of death.
Cars are designed to kill people? Consumer vehicles? Lol right… Do better.
In terms of outcomes, there are about 400 million guns in the US and about 283 million cars. Yet gun deaths and car deaths have kept pace with one another for about a decade with roughly 45K annually for each, with guns recently edging out cars during covid. Statistically speaking, a gun kills at a rate of 11.25⁻⁵ Americans per year, while a car kills at a rate of 15.79⁻⁵ Americans per year.
However, I hope you’ll agree with me that we shouldn’t ban cars simply because they are capable of violence.
Pft, your car doesnt have a giant unicorn spike on the front for spearing pedestrians?