The Eleventh Circuit just dropped another major opinion on constitutional law, this time upholding Florida’s ban on firearm purchases by individuals under 21 against a Second and Fourteenth Amendment challenge. With courts—including SCOTUS—grappling with gun rights post-Bruen, this decision adds another layer to the debate. And if you thought textualist and originalist judges would all fall on the same side of the issue, think again: Chief Judge Pryor, Judge Grant, and Judge Newsom backed the ruling, while Judges Lagoa, Luck, and Branch dissented. Read the full opinion below.
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At the end of the day, originalists understand that giving handguns to 18 year olds is a stupid fucking idea and they are willing to twist their judicial philosophy enough to prevent that from happening.
Congratulations, Circuit split achieved. Now it goes up!
Lol I don’t think this court has been waiting for circuit splits to decide what to take.
If we are limited to 50 pages in a brief so should they. This is a novella and not a very good one. Who has time to carefully read 169 pages of babble about what people in the 1790s thought about guns and juveniles owning them? Such arrant nonsense and self important faux intellectual grandiosity when we have kids being slaughtered in school by other kids. Did they have school shootings in the 1790s? No. They didn’t have a whole lot of public schools. They fiddle while first graders die in a hail of billets. Shame on them.
The vast, vast majority of gun-related deaths in schools are a result of gang violence. Rumpole fearmongers about the miniscule percentage of cases where a monster kills young children, when the actual solution is to punitively pursue gang crime in very specific parts of the population. But he doesn't want to admit what the real problem is--that might be politically incorrect, after all. Much better to fearmonger and shriek hysterically about first graders dying than to actually notice where the problem is.
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