How the right wing uses the Constitution and the Supreme Court to squeeze liberty out of Americans..

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.editorialboard.com/how-the-right-wing-uses-the-constitution-and-the-supreme-court-to-squeeze-liberty-out-of-americans-they-dont-like/

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Consider an upcoming case to be heard before the United States Supreme Court. It’s the biggest case on Second Amendment rights since Heller in 2008. Heller established the right to self-defense. The state is forbidden to outlaw guns for personal use and safety. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, plaintiffs hope to take Heller a step further to establish the right to conceal one’s weapon.

It’s important to understand the context of Bruen. Heller was decided before America elected its first Black president. After the election, the “gun-rights” movement sprang into action. I said this yesterday, but didn’t say why. It’s because democracy “unexpectedly” empowered non-white people. For many white people, empowered non-white people, especially Black people, means disempowered white people.

Something had to be done. Since American democracy could no longer be trusted, they turned to their guns. They turned to tactics to fight the feeling of being “enslaved.” Thanks to Heller, they could legally carry their guns in public, in places where they’d never need a gun, like the library. They said they were exercising their rights. They were lying. They were doing exactly what the school board death-threat squads are doing now. (Local law enforcement officers said then as now that nothing can be done.) They were harassing, intimidating and threatening people they don’t like. They were doing that because harassing, intimidating and threatening people makes them feel free.

The need among some white people to feel “free” in the face of a treacherous democracy that empowered non-white people — thus robbing white people of their freedoms — was so fierce that a day that might otherwise have triggered a national reckoning on gun violence was barely noticed. While most Americans saw the slaughter of 20 innocents at Sandy Hook as an overwhelming reason to increase gun regulation, the “gun-rights” movement was focused on something else: the 2012 reelection of Black president and chief avatar of tyranny.

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. White controlling people..

They were harassing, intimidating and threatening people they don’t like. They were doing that because harassing, intimidating and threatening people makes them feel free."

Sociopathy runs deep in white right wing conservatives and thier "culture".