Opinion: Supreme Court ducks a 2nd Amendment issue — for now (via latimesopinion)
In America, the healthiest are by no coincidence also the wealthiest. The poor, the disabled and people of color get the short end of the stick.New York, facing the possibility that its law might become a vehicle for the Supreme Court to expand gun rights, changed it to accommodate the complaint in the lawsuit by letting gun owners with so-called “premise permits” transport their weapons — locked and unloaded — out of the city, including to second homes.
The plaintiffs argued that the case still had legs because the new law meant that if they were transporting a firearm, they couldn’t stop for lunch or a cup of coffee along the way, a notion that New York officials rejected. The plaintiffs also said, in an argument added late in the appeals process, that they might be able to sue the city for damages.
The court, fortunately, disagreed with the stop-for-coffee objection and kicked the damages issue back to the lower courts.
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