The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

  • HerrLewakaas@feddit.de
    57·
    1 year ago

    Agree with one exception: It’s a dog eat dog country. It’s not like that anywhere else in the industrialized world

    • djflusso@lemmy.world
      516·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but Russia, North Korea, China are all industrialized, see where they are? Government screws them daily… It’s about individual lives and freedoms. About me. And about you. More discernment to gun purchases are needed, if anything. To keep them away from nutsos

      • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
        124·
        1 year ago

        Now list all the industrialized countries that don’t have widespread gun ownership and do have individual lives and freedoms. I mean according to you they should all be like Russia, China, and North Korea right?

        • djflusso@lemmy.world
          113·
          1 year ago

          No country is on USA’s level- we are a world leader. Pioneering the way. Yes some individuals make wrong decisions but at least we can make our own choices to speak and act how we want and learn from the consequences; we can overturn our governments in the courts if they violate our constitutional rights at this point- let’s keep it that way.

          I was just talking about countries that forbid you to protect yourself (as a strong example of my point of our rights being taken away).

          • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
            101·
            1 year ago

            If no county is on our level, why are you comparing us to the worst in the world, instead of the best of the world? That is, in my opinion, the most damning part of your argument.

            If no other country is on our level why are we not leading in the way in life expectancy, human rights index, prison population, suicide rate, gun violence, murder, paid time off, parental time off, health care outcomes, childbirth survival rates, equality indexes, and many many more?

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        We get screwed by the government in the US, too. Yet, people aren’t actually taking up arms against the government out here. They’re taking up arms against each other. It really seems that we’ve missed the mark on why we’re supposed to be such a pro-gun nation in the first place.