Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Rights
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We ran the numbers: There are 3,075 news articles covering this topic. 17% (520) are left leaning, 36% (1,121) are center, and 47% (1,434) are right leaning.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote to strike down a law requiring New York state residents to have a special need to carry weapons out of their homes. While left-leaning articles emphasize the split between governmental branches in gun legislation, right-leaning articles focus on Biden’s reaction to the Supreme Court decision.
A left-leaning article from The New York Times highlights Washington’s unique split on gun legislation in a single day, as the Supreme Court advanced private gun rights while the Senate advanced gun control legislation. The article also notes that the split in congressional and judicial opinion on gun rights perpetuates public confusion about the direction of gun policy in an era of increasing mass shootings.
USA Today published a centrist article reporting that the ruling split the court along ideological lines, with the conservative majority ruling that the law breaches the Constitutional ‘right to keep and bear arms’. The ruling will affect at least five states, including New York, that have laws regulating gun-carrying outside of the home.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights Biden’s disappointed reaction to the ruling, as he defended the New York law that had stood for over 100 years. The article also notes that Democrats, more broadly, condemned the ruling as the first major second amendment ruling in over a decade.
From the center
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