We Need to Learn to Live With Guns
A passive Congress and hostile judiciary leave Americans with little choice but to change the culture of firearms.
The most important thing you need to know about yesterday’s tragic school shooting in Texas is that absolutely no laws are going to change as a result of it.
In the 14 years since the Supreme Court found an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment in the landmark case of D.C. v. Heller, the federal judiciary has only grown more conservative. The courts will likely bar any meaningful restrictions on the possession of firearms for at least another generation.
Your fellow Americans, meanwhile, who collectively bought 40 million firearms in 2020 and 2021, typically floated by politicians after such tragedies. In Texas, the state’s already permissive gun laws a priority in the last legislative session.
