The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term amidst a collapse of legitimacy, historic corruption and scandal, conflict of interest, and efforts to obstruct investigations into right-wing billionaire purchasing of influence over the High Court.

[above image] : Abortion rights advocates protested the Supreme Court’s attack on women’s rights when it ended Roe. The Court is expected to intensify its attacks on democracy in the new term. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
    10·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, some people tend to ignore sentences, historical context and reality itself in order to maintain that their near-religious obsession with guns is justified and about freedom and safety.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      But at the time it literally was about freedom and safety. The colonists needed guns in every house to be ready to fight any empirical powers.

      Now days it makes no sense considering the military and political might of the USA, but you can’t disregard Jeffersons words as out of context wrt to guns. Yes in those times they absolutely wanted everyone (white) armed.

      • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
        21·
        9 months ago

        Again: even assuming that, there’s a world of difference between the collective ownership and use of a militia’s weapons and personal ownership for personal use.