Opinion | Editorial: Uvalde and Newtown are not the price for freedom
Look at the photos of the 19 children – fourth-graders about to celebrate the beginning of summer – and ask if collectively we did all we could to protect them from a traumatic, painful death in a place they thought was safe. Many of the photos grieving families are releasing were taken the day before the shooting as students celebrated making the honor roll.
More than half of our country believes that this price – dead bodies in elementary schools, teachers lives cut short trying to protect children, lost lives in grocery stores, stray bullets that hit sleeping babies – is worth the freedom to own almost any gun and ammunition desired.On the contrary, we support an abundance of simple regulations that would pass constitutional scrutiny, prevent mass shootings, and reduce casualties when shootings occur.
“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose,” wrote Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority, in an opinion that was long overdue. “We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms.
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