Supreme Court sounds wary of extending gun rights to domestic abusers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The court's conservatives have supported gun rights under the 2nd Amendment, and last year Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion for a 6-3 majority that threatens many of the nation's gun laws enacted since the 1960s.
50% : Prelogar said the need for the law was obvious.
45% : "Doubtless," the appellate judges said, the law was well-intended and "meant to protect vulnerable people in our society," but that is not sufficient.
41% : But the 5th Circuit overturned his conviction and struck down the law as unconstitutional.
40% : Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the law allows removing guns from someone "based on dangerousness.
38% : However, if the high court ruled the federal law violates the 2nd Amendment, its decision would likely void the state laws as well.
36% : "This is a facial challenge" to the law, he said, not a case where someone claims he was treated unfairly. "Do you have any doubt that your client is a dangerous person?"
33% : Both conservatives and liberals suggested judges had gone too far in a Texas case by striking down the federal law that takes away firearms from persons who had threatened a domestic partner or their child.
31% : States enforce these restraining orders, she said, and at least 48 states authorize taking away guns from people who are judged to pose a danger to a domestic partner.

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