Why one Denver survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law

  • Bias Rating

    -82% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -92% Extremely Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    44% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"When police identified Rahimi as a suspect in the shootings and showed up at his home with a search warrant, Rahimi admitted both to having guns in the house and being subject to a domestic violence restraining order that prohibited gun possession, Wilson wrote."
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18% Conservative
"Gun rights organizations are supporting Zackey Rahimi, the Texas man whose challenge to the law led to the Supreme Court case."
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2% Conservative
"The closely watched case is the first one involving guns to reach the justices since their landmark Bruen decision last year expanded gun rights and changed the way courts evaluate whether restrictions on firearms violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms."
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-6% Liberal
"At least one district court has upheld the law since the Bruen decision."
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-6% Liberal
"Those include age restrictions, bans on homemade ghost guns and prohibitions on gun ownership for people convicted of nonviolent felonies or using illegal drugs."
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-14% Liberal
"But even though Rahimi was hardly a model citizen, Wilson wrote, the law at issue could not be justified by looking to history."
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-22% Liberal
"She says the law passed two years later would have kept guns out of the hands of her violent, estranged spouse."
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-30% Liberal
"Gle, the president of Survivor Justice Action, is allied with gun control groups that are backing the Biden administration's defense of the law."
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-54% Liberal
"Rahimi's case, and the subject of domestic violence may offer the government the optimal situation for defending gun restrictions, said Hashim Mooppan, a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration."
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-16% Liberal
"Gle, the president of Survivor Justice Action, is allied with gun control groups that are backing the Biden administration's defense of the law."
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-30% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : When police identified Rahimi as a suspect in the shootings and showed up at his home with a search warrant, Rahimi admitted both to having guns in the house and being subject to a domestic violence restraining order that prohibited gun possession, Wilson wrote.
51% : Gun rights organizations are supporting Zackey Rahimi, the Texas man whose challenge to the law led to the Supreme Court case.
47% : The closely watched case is the first one involving guns to reach the justices since their landmark Bruen decision last year expanded gun rights and changed the way courts evaluate whether restrictions on firearms violate the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms.
47% : At least one district court has upheld the law since the Bruen decision.
43% : Those include age restrictions, bans on homemade "ghost guns" and prohibitions on gun ownership for people convicted of nonviolent felonies or using illegal drugs.
39% : But even though Rahimi was hardly "a model citizen," Wilson wrote, the law at issue could not be justified by looking to history.
35% : She says the law passed two years later would have kept guns out of the hands of her violent, estranged spouse.
23% : "Glenn, the president of Survivor Justice Action, is allied with gun control groups that are backing the Biden administration's defense of the law.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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