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Commentary: Forget history. Forget safety. The Supreme Court prizes unfettered gun rights above all else

An attendee wears a shirt featuring an AR-15 style rifle during the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022.

After the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, and so many other places, it is deeply distressing that the Supreme Court on Thursday dramatically expanded gun rights and limited the ability of the government to prevent gun violence.

In a 6-3 decision, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court declared unconstitutional a New York law that limited the ability to have concealed weapons in public. The decision is, by far, the most expansive reading of the 2nd Amendment in American history, and its approach

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