SCOTUS Sets Terrifying New
Precedent on Gun Rights
By Nate Madden. June 27th, 2016
The Supreme Court passed some potentially sweeping gun control legislation Monday (misnomer intended), and carelessness could now cost you your Second Amendment rights, according to the ruling.
In a 6-2 decision in the case of Voisine v. United States, the court ruled that crimes of recklessness rise to the same level as "misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence" which preclude individuals convicted of such a crime from firearm ownership by federal law.
Both petitioners in the case, who had been convicted of crimes reckless in nature, claimed that their convictions shouldn't have triggered the federal prohibition. Justice Kagan, on behalf of the majority, saw it quite differently: ..... 
The slippery slope appears to get ever more dangerous. Justice Thomas, one of only two dissenters, gives the example of someone texting while driving who can lose a right to bear arms indefinitely, if that action happens to cause even the most insignificant injury to passengers, or a third party. While hopefully most would agree that texting while driving is beyond unsafe - to apply this new ruling to such seems just another major assault on the 2A. Imagine how many other minor misdemeanors could be brought into this extreme ruling.
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