This is the cover of today’s Daily Sun from the Sarasota region of Florida. Whether or not it’s a juxtaposition by design (I think it is), I think it captures the current state of firearm regulation within the United States. H/T to James Fallows on Blue Sky for sharing this front page.
Aside: It is worth noting how various political groups and ideologies approach different Constitutional Amendments with varying levels of textualism and originalism. Some, for example, believe the Second Amendment deserves radical textualism and originalism (suggesting that any regulation is in violation of it). Strangely, those same people seem to be convinced that “participating in the insurrection” as outlined in the 14th Amendment requires some form of conviction, though the specific word “conviction” is not found anywhere in the text of that Amendment. Nor was there a discussion of the need for that in any of the contemporary documents nor it’s initial application.
That said, the argument can of course, be reversed too.
