Judge Katherine Menendez strikes down Minnesota's under-21 handgun carry ban

[In It to Win It]

BREAKING: Worth v. Harrington (D. MN): Judge strikes down Minnesota's under-21 carry ban, saying the state failed to show that it "is consistent with the nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulations as required by Bruen." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.194951/gov.uscourts.mnd.194951.84.0.pdf

[Turbineguy]

1. The first question to ask is:

"Will this judgment cause more deaths?" If so, go ahead!

[Amishman]

14. Judges aren't allowed to consider that anymore.

Essentially no gun law can stand up to the scrutiny test that Thomas wrote in Bruen. He intentionally gave the gun loving right a tool kit to tear it all down.

[maxsolomon]

2. What age range is most likely to irresponsibly use a handgun?

Bingo. This will directly result in more pointless testosterone shootings.

Part and parcel of a decades-long legal effort to undo every firearm restriction in every state, county, or city in the nation. It's been successful in almost every instance, too.

How anyone thinks we're anywhere close to overturning the 2nd Amendment or banning Semi-Automatics boggles my brain. We're still going in the opposite direction.

[Marcus IM]

3. In America every mass shooting results in less gun regulation.

Developed nations create more regs if not outright bans.

Not America. Not really a developed nation with republicans at any level of government.

[Kaleva]

4. The homicide rate for black males in Detroit and Chicago

Is at war zone levels and has been that way for a long time.

"Detroit grapples with 'devastating' impact of black male homicides"


"In Detroit, of 312 homicide victims in 2016, 279 were African American; 246 of those black victims -- 88 percent -- were male, according to figures from the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. While Detroit’s rate of black male homicide is high -- 97 per 100,000 -- it trails that of Chicago, where the rate is 120 per 100,000. "

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/10/21/detroit-dealing-devastating-impact-black-male-homicides/808535002/

The homicide rate for the US overall is 7.8.

"Black males remained twice as likely to be the victim of a gun related death compared with white males."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/

People don't seem to care too much when it's black males getting gunned down. But people pay attention when the victims are white.

[maxsolomon]

5. I care, and I have no answers to the plague of stolen handguns

and internecine urban shootings. I don't think anyone does.

It's a tragic, pointless waste.

[Kaleva]

6. It is a tragic, senseless waste.

Lifting the residents of urban areas living in poverty may dramatically reduce violent crime.

[dchill]

7. That's a lot of words to say...

I've already been well paid by the gun lobby.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

18. She is a Biden appointee

Doubtful she was paid off. She's just following SCOTUS precedent. Her hands are pretty tied up on this.

[dchill]

22. That's a real shame.

[Carlitos Brigante]

8. E-V-E-R-Y single one of them is a sociopath. You cannot reason with these deranged ghouls. nt

[sarisataka]

9. You are aware

This Judge was nominated by Biden? Or do you mean every Judge is a sociopath?

[Carlitos Brigante]

13. Right wing gun fetishists. I don't really give a shit who nominated them. nt

[sarisataka]

15. That is some food for thought

I don't expect when I vote for a Democratic President he will be nominating right wing gun fetishists to be Federal Judges.

[In It to Win It]

16. She's doing the job. She, unfortunately, has to follow SCOTUS precedent, and that's what she did

Her hands are tied.

Judge Ho in the 5th Circuit bitched, nagged, and complained all throughout his concurring opinion on abortion rights, but he upheld SCOTUS precedent when Roe and Casey were still good law despite his disgust with having to write it.

[sarisataka]

19. Many seem to think however

That rather than just following the current interpretation of the law, distasteful as it may be, she must be a right wing gun fetishist on the payroll of gun companies.

I tend to believe your idea is much closer to the truth

[Carlitos Brigante]

17. That's exactly how that decision makes them look like. And your expectations really

mean dick to me, when almost every day one reads about a new mass shooting.

I get you're trying to be clever. Awesome, whatever gets you through.

[sarisataka]

20. So you expect judges

To ignore SCOTUS rulings and instead hand down a decision you prefer? That isn't how our system works. A higher court would overturn such a ruling and the judge would soon be looking for a job if they do that as a habit.

[Carlitos Brigante]

21. Saw reply #16 after my first response showing the shitty precedent established

by the right-wing SC. And realized this is not a case like that crazy Circuit Judge in TX whose name escapes me.

[Aristus]

10. Then cashes a big check from the NRA.

[sarisataka]

11. This case flew under the radar,

I had not seen any reporting on it.

The Legislature however is advancing universal background checks and a red flag bill.

[Johonny]

12. I wonder why there are so many shooting in this country

I just can't understand it