So sayeth the Supreme Court. Dahlia Lithwick makes a great point at Slate. Justice Scalia wrote in his Boumediene dissent, concerning the habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo detainees, that “today’s decision will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.” No such concern in the case of handguns, which kill more Americans in a year than terrorism has in the life the republic. It’s exactly as Timothy Noah argued at the time of the Virginia Tech massacre. We care about those murdered kids, sure. But we care more about their murderer’s gun rights. Noah weighs in again.
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