Prohibition of weapons in the United States for people with a history of domestic violence
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a federal law in which the possession and carrying of firearms was approved by persons with a domestic violence restraining order, and accordingly, possession of firearms by persons with a history of domestic violence
Accordingly, the 8-1 ruling, signed by conservative Justice John Roberts, overturned a lower court decision that It violated the 1994 law. This law violated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. This law was challenged by a Texas man who had been issued a gun restraining order for assaulting his girlfriend and threatening to shoot her.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans concluded that the law failed the strict test the Supreme Court considered in 2022. This law requires that gun laws be consistent with the national historical tradition of firearm regulation in order to be consistent with the Second Amendment.
But Justice Roberts stated that since then, firearms laws have targeted people who cause physical harm to others.
He added: When the order prohibiting the use of weapons includes the fact that a person poses a serious threat to the physical safety of his friend, that person may, in accordance with the second amendment of the constitution, be prohibited from possessing firearms while The ban has been issued to him, to be banned.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration called the approval of this law a great victory for itself in order to protect public safety and to support the victims of violence, who are mostly women. Worry if their persecutors have guns. As a result of this ruling, survivors of domestic violence and their families are still able to receive vital protections and protections as they have enjoyed for the past 3 decades.
Meanwhile, a few days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on the use of a type of rifle butt for semi-automatic weapons. Rejected the automatic in favor of rapid fire like a machine gun.
This law was introduced in 2019 by Donald Trump was approved after a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and injured hundreds. During this incident, this type of gun butt was used for shooting.
US President Joe Biden defended this decision and declared that this decision violated an important gun safety law. The American people should not live in fear of mass shootings. He emphasized that he will use every tool in his government to suppress armed violence.
Meanwhile, the head of gun control advocates in all cities for gun safety called on Congress to outlaw the use of this type of rifle stock. He emphasized that weapons equipped with this type of gun shoot like machine guns and kill people like machine guns and should be banned like machine guns. =”color:black”>.
The rise of armed violence in the United States is such that every week we see bloody shootings in some part of the United States. These shootings in public places such as schools, shopping malls and churches have increased dramatically.
It is said that the high number of shootings in America has caused people’s anxiety and insecurity and It has started many political debates. Critics accuse pro-gun Republican extremists of treacherous collaboration with the gun lobby.
In recent years, anti-gun lobby groups have gained influence in America, but in At the top of politics, not much has been done yet due to the balance of power in the Senate and systemic constraints. So the Republicans are still on the side of the gun owners and the Democrats are getting nowhere with their projects. Some say, Biden could simply issue executive orders, or declare a public health emergency, and take countermeasures given the toll of gun violence. However, in both cases, this would be easy to undo and the next election is only a few months away.
National Rifle Association of America ( NRA) is one of the most powerful non-military organizations in this country that drives the interests of gun owners and those who deem it necessary.
The association may have lost some of its influence in recent years and may not be as financially powerful as it was in 2016, when it spent about $54 million on presidential campaigns. But the gun lobby and its supporters have since invested about $33 million in the 2020 presidential election. One of their main goals is to prevent stricter laws against gun owners.
In this situation, the ruling Democrats are particularly in favor of strict gun laws, in While the Republicans are against it. But the majority of American political representatives are against building a legislative wall in the US Senate against this issue. To implement such a project, a 60% majority in Congress is required, which does not exist.
New results The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll also shows that 75 percent of registered voters, including 84 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Republicans, said someone with a domestic violence restraining order should not be allowed to own one. have firearms.
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