The Times Predicts 'Bloody' Results After Gun Rights Victory
Tuesday's lead editorial, “The Court and the Bill of Rights,” came in response to another court victory for gun rights: the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision, one of the last of the term, extending the Second Amendment's guarantee of a right to bear arms to the states, all but overturning two restrictive gun laws in Illinois. The Times did not handle it well, blaming the court for "bloody" results to come.
About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme Court debated which clause of the Constitution it would use to subvert Chicago’s entirely sensible ban on handgun ownership. The arguments that led to Monday’s decision undermining Chicago’s law were infuriatingly abstract, but the results will be all too real and bloody.
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