Supreme Court to hear case on New York's gun permit law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Gun rights groups, meanwhile, say the risk of a confrontation is precisely why they have a right to be armed for self-defense.
59% : New York, for its part, denies that and says that the Second Amendment allows states to restrict the carrying of guns in public.
56% : And Barrett, as an appeals court judge, wrote in a dissent that a conviction for a nonviolent felony shouldn´t automatically disqualify someone from owning a gun; she said her colleagues were treating the Second Amendment as a "second-class right."
54% : Lawyers for the group say the text of the Second Amendment, along with history and tradition, supports their argument that there´s a right to carry a gun outside the home.
52% : Gun control advocates acknowledge the court´s composition has them concerned about the outcome.
49% : Gun rights advocates hope that the court with a 6-3 conservative majority is poised to side with them.
45% : Their actions so far have given gun rights advocates reasons to be hopeful, however.
43% : It, too, points to history, tradition and the text of the Second Amendment.

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