Sanity from the Courts on Gun Control in a Time of Trump

It may be small comfort to read a court decision rooted in the desire to prevent another Newtown-style massacre from happening at a time when the President of the United States is eager to listen to a figure from beyond the lunatic fringe like Alex Jones, who claims that the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, never happened at all. But in two court decisions this week, one in Virginia and one in Florida, the fight for gun safety, not to mention gun sanity, continues. The decisions are cheering not only because of their content—which, if not likely to much lower the level of gun violence, is still likely to save the lives of many children—but because of their explanatory manner, their judicial style. In both cases, clear and articulate argument is made, and, for the moment, won, against the same kind of frenzied dishonesty, and the same toxic brew of authoritarian absurdity parading as libertarian choice, that have helped propel Donald Trump to power.

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