What about my right to live without violence? Supreme Court decisions on guns harm survivors.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : That part of the Bill of Rights has made it difficult for government to limit gun ownership and even now to restrict concealed arms in public places.
56% : But there is a glaring lack of balance in the opinion because Scalia, while admitting limits on Second Amendment rights in the abstract, provides no systematic reasoning or principles that might help us establish where the individual's right to gun ownership ends and the right of the community to live without the constant threat of gun violence begins.
54% : Ergo, Second Amendment rights should not require it, either.
52% : It seems highly doubtful that the Second Amendment as now understood can survive the Alito test.
51% :Gun rights pose a severe test for the idea of originalism because of the enormous technological advance of weapons since the 18th century.
49% : The District of Columbia v. Heller decision of 2008 established for the first time an individual right to gun ownership and invalidated a widespread previous understanding that the Second Amendment referred to a collective "right of the people," organized in a "well regulated Militia."
49% : This distinction makes evident why government and the public have compelling interests in the exercise of Second Amendment rights that they do not for other rights.
47% : New York is among a half-dozen states that had gun law provisions invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court that expanded the Second Amendment.
46% : Written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the opinion equates Second Amendment rights with other constitutional rights such as that of free speech.
37% : In a recent speech, Justice Samuel Alito declared that the court's decision extending the anti-discrimination provision in civil rights legislation to sexual orientation and gender was wrongly decided.
32% : There's a simple explanation for this level of violence: The American rate of gun ownership is exceptional because of the Second Amendment.

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