• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    “Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands. To do so, it casts aside Congress’s definition of ‘machinegun’ and seizes upon one that is inconsistent with the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose.”

    “We conclude that [a] semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger"

    “When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck,”

    Ignoring reality in favor of weird essentialism to support your base, is like peak conservative. How dumb.

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      Originalism is the legal equivalent of people picking and choosing single sentences out of religious texts out of context.

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        The term makes sense if you understand it is referring to the how the interpretation of the Constitution is brand new (“original”) for each judgement.

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      Ignoring reality in favor of weird essentialism

      Ignoring reality because Thomas likes to live like a billionaire and Alito hates gays.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    Anyone who’s called an AR-15 an assault rifle in a thread about a school shooting knows about the pedantry of the gun lobby.

    I’m amazed they didn’t overthrow the law because it says “pull the trigger” instead of “squeeze the trigger.”

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    It’s AGAINST the Constitution for them to block people from showing up at the Supreme Court or Justices homes with Guns that fire like Machine Guns! I’m not Advocating anything I’m pointing out the Death Cult that is the Republican Party who would literally put ONE Nice Vacation over their Own Lives.

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    Normally I’d say something like “nothing will change until conservatives suffer personally”, but lots of kids have been shot and that didn’t do it. So I don’t know man.

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        I honestly believe it was a mistake not releasing the footage with the screaming.

        The fact that they were all standing around doing fuck all is bad, but you have to actively remember there are kids screaming. While mr punisher walpaper is pulling his phone out there are kids screaming. While they were all grouped together in the hall there are kids screaming.

        Instead of having to actively place the sound you would have to actively ignore it like those shitbags in blue were. It would make their inaction all the more inexcusable. Release the edited footage so the news can play and so people who (understandably) can’t stomach the sound can still watch it, but have the unedited footage to show how monsterously uncaring those subhumans were.

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    Just to be clear, for anyone that wasn’t paying attention, the bump stock ban occurred under the Trump administration. All the second amendment people that think Trump has your back need to wake up.