Title 18 U.S.C. 922(g) is a federal criminal statute that prohibits people in certain categories from possessing firearms. While it is most often used, and frequently referred to, as a prohibition against felons possessing firearms, it also prohibits fugitives, drug users, “mental defectives,” unlawfully present aliens, people dishonorably discharged from the military, and people who have renounced their U.S. citizenship from owning or possessing firearms. Its final two subsections also prohibit possession by a range of people who have been convicted of domestic violence or committed intimate-partner violence. Here’s the domestic violence provision:
My former abuser went to buy a gun. He only failed to pick it up after the background check because he knew he would use it - to kill me. It was the only decision he made that seemed to put me first. But, in hindsight, I think he knew he’d get caught if he killed me. So he likely would have been punished. Instead, he continued to beat me inside my hairline. I eventually got away but allowing abusers to have guns will absolutely lead to more deaths of women. We ARE second class citizens here in the United States. It keeps being thrown in our faces even by our Supreme Court.
This situation caused by the sophistic legal contortions of the federal judicial system using "Originalism" as the dominant legal paradigm at the Supreme Court is more than farcical - it is dangerous. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%. 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female. About 5 people, both women and men, die every day as a result of domestic violence in the United States. Many children witnessing domestic violence develop toxic stress and trauma as much as if they were beaten themselves. The role of the courts is to protect citizens fairly and equally, not to abandon them for abstract principles which may have existed several centuries ago.
Ar-15 lapel pins replacing the American flag pin. US high court giving explicit permission to dometic abusers to have as many firearms as they want. Well, no more doubt about Republican's HATRED of women (including Republican women).
My ex-husband abused me for years (in two different states) and oftentimes did so with a pistol in his hand. One night he held me up against the door with one hand around my throat (so I couldn't scream) and he had his gun to my temple with the other. My 12 year old son was behind him sobbing and begging him not to kill me.
I escaped the first time that night but not before he had me down on the ground outside with my face in the dirt, his knee in my back, firing his gun twice next to my ear and then immediately pressing into the back of my head behind my ear leaving a burn mark. I filed my first police report and included photos of the burn mark from the tip of the gun. That only resulted in my ex's Concealed Weapons Permit to be suspended. The abuse didn't stop.
After we moved to a different state, where they had different laws, he had a clean slate (this is why we need universal gun laws). No surprise that the abuse continued. Shooting holes into the floor and ceiling of our home, leaving bruises on my arms and legs, throwing random objects at me or against the wall was a weekly experience for me. Being held at gunpoint became his abuse of choice because it made him feel powerful.
Luckily, after eight years off hell, I was able to escape. But my ex is still out there in the world walking around with a 45 on his hip because it's his right? I'm so furious right now.
It’s as if the people have no power at all over these ‘bought and paid for’ justices. When did we cede all power to a corrupt set of extremists? Exactly what our founding fathers tried to protect us against. Beyond frustrating and outrageous. We need to find a way to stop this court overreach and I suspect the only way is to add to the size of the court while the Dems have a slim majority in the Senate. People are being massacred by assault weapons and the answer from the courts is to enable more massacres.
In the heels of today's intended mass shooting at a Target in Omaha, Nebraska, I learned that it's legal in Nebraska to carry an AK-47 in public. Absolutely INCREDIBLE. It's feeling more and more like Lebanon in the 1980's. I used to wonder how people could bear to live under such circumstances. I'm learning.
What is good is it to have a legislature that wright and passes laws that protect public, if judges can turn around and play word games with us and overturn them. There are laws that are written, passed and signed into law, that should be overturned because they are harmful to the public, but when they clearly protect and defend the rights of people and their safety they should not be overturned. I am sick and tired of judges and justices playing politics. Perhaps having politicians nominate them is a bad idea. Who then? How about a panel of Constitutional scholars and experts? Approved unanimously by a group of Constitutional lawyers? Something than what we are doing now, because you know what it isn't working, and it isn't working because they are nominated by the President and approved by elected officials who may or may not vote party line. There are many processes, policies and procedures that really need to be looked at and revised.
First, I cannot imagine the fortitude of Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown Jackson! They sit on this Supreme Court surrounded by pharisaic reactionaries who are causing the US untold damage, and deaths. Lady Justices, you have my profound admiration. It must be so hard!
Second, Guns kill. That’s it. Duh. That’s why they were created. The 2nd amendment was about nation founding militias, not giving free reign to shoot whatever whenever with whatever assault rifle. These sanctimonious Justices are evil.
Then, of course, it is a person’s right to walk by a Supreme Court justice’s home with an AK 47 whether or not he or she ever threatened the justice? Does the Supreme Court justice have more righted than a previously beaten and threatened spouse? Has America lost its collective mind?
How many lives have been saved by citizens (not military) with semiautomatic assault weapons? How many have died or been seriously wounded by citizens with assault weapons? Is that what the writers of the Constitution envisioned? Help me here: show me any article about a citizen protecting others with an assault weapon.
My former abuser went to buy a gun. He only failed to pick it up after the background check because he knew he would use it - to kill me. It was the only decision he made that seemed to put me first. But, in hindsight, I think he knew he’d get caught if he killed me. So he likely would have been punished. Instead, he continued to beat me inside my hairline. I eventually got away but allowing abusers to have guns will absolutely lead to more deaths of women. We ARE second class citizens here in the United States. It keeps being thrown in our faces even by our Supreme Court.
This situation caused by the sophistic legal contortions of the federal judicial system using "Originalism" as the dominant legal paradigm at the Supreme Court is more than farcical - it is dangerous. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%. 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female. About 5 people, both women and men, die every day as a result of domestic violence in the United States. Many children witnessing domestic violence develop toxic stress and trauma as much as if they were beaten themselves. The role of the courts is to protect citizens fairly and equally, not to abandon them for abstract principles which may have existed several centuries ago.
Ar-15 lapel pins replacing the American flag pin. US high court giving explicit permission to dometic abusers to have as many firearms as they want. Well, no more doubt about Republican's HATRED of women (including Republican women).
My ex-husband abused me for years (in two different states) and oftentimes did so with a pistol in his hand. One night he held me up against the door with one hand around my throat (so I couldn't scream) and he had his gun to my temple with the other. My 12 year old son was behind him sobbing and begging him not to kill me.
I escaped the first time that night but not before he had me down on the ground outside with my face in the dirt, his knee in my back, firing his gun twice next to my ear and then immediately pressing into the back of my head behind my ear leaving a burn mark. I filed my first police report and included photos of the burn mark from the tip of the gun. That only resulted in my ex's Concealed Weapons Permit to be suspended. The abuse didn't stop.
After we moved to a different state, where they had different laws, he had a clean slate (this is why we need universal gun laws). No surprise that the abuse continued. Shooting holes into the floor and ceiling of our home, leaving bruises on my arms and legs, throwing random objects at me or against the wall was a weekly experience for me. Being held at gunpoint became his abuse of choice because it made him feel powerful.
Luckily, after eight years off hell, I was able to escape. But my ex is still out there in the world walking around with a 45 on his hip because it's his right? I'm so furious right now.
It’s as if the people have no power at all over these ‘bought and paid for’ justices. When did we cede all power to a corrupt set of extremists? Exactly what our founding fathers tried to protect us against. Beyond frustrating and outrageous. We need to find a way to stop this court overreach and I suspect the only way is to add to the size of the court while the Dems have a slim majority in the Senate. People are being massacred by assault weapons and the answer from the courts is to enable more massacres.
In the heels of today's intended mass shooting at a Target in Omaha, Nebraska, I learned that it's legal in Nebraska to carry an AK-47 in public. Absolutely INCREDIBLE. It's feeling more and more like Lebanon in the 1980's. I used to wonder how people could bear to live under such circumstances. I'm learning.
I'm trying not to scream.
his Court is hardly Supreme
It is a nightmare instead of a dream
It took away a right we held dear
And women are suffering but hell do they care
And now can we take the subject of guns
What the court has done simply does stun
And with the wife of Clarence an election denier
And three of the judges known liars
How tragic these nine have been a source of pain
I wish that we could from here the swamp drain
What is good is it to have a legislature that wright and passes laws that protect public, if judges can turn around and play word games with us and overturn them. There are laws that are written, passed and signed into law, that should be overturned because they are harmful to the public, but when they clearly protect and defend the rights of people and their safety they should not be overturned. I am sick and tired of judges and justices playing politics. Perhaps having politicians nominate them is a bad idea. Who then? How about a panel of Constitutional scholars and experts? Approved unanimously by a group of Constitutional lawyers? Something than what we are doing now, because you know what it isn't working, and it isn't working because they are nominated by the President and approved by elected officials who may or may not vote party line. There are many processes, policies and procedures that really need to be looked at and revised.
First, I cannot imagine the fortitude of Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown Jackson! They sit on this Supreme Court surrounded by pharisaic reactionaries who are causing the US untold damage, and deaths. Lady Justices, you have my profound admiration. It must be so hard!
Second, Guns kill. That’s it. Duh. That’s why they were created. The 2nd amendment was about nation founding militias, not giving free reign to shoot whatever whenever with whatever assault rifle. These sanctimonious Justices are evil.
Foreign countries do not need to spend time coming up with ways to destroy us; they just need to sit back and watch us destroy ourselves.
Between Citizens United, MAGA, and our own courts, we are well on our way.
The loonie-toonie Fifth Circuit needs to be tossed in a burlap sack and thrown off the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
It's my understanding that, Mr. Rahimi AGREED TO the restraint order. WTF was the 5th Circuit doing interfering with the order in the first place?
I dropped the restraining order. My ex said “now I can buy a gun.”
Then, of course, it is a person’s right to walk by a Supreme Court justice’s home with an AK 47 whether or not he or she ever threatened the justice? Does the Supreme Court justice have more righted than a previously beaten and threatened spouse? Has America lost its collective mind?
How many lives have been saved by citizens (not military) with semiautomatic assault weapons? How many have died or been seriously wounded by citizens with assault weapons? Is that what the writers of the Constitution envisioned? Help me here: show me any article about a citizen protecting others with an assault weapon.