Gun Rights And Domestic Violence Collide At Supreme Court — But Justices Will Be Looking To The Past

Gun Rights And Domestic Violence Collide At Supreme Court

There is going to be a history vs. tradition argument in the Supreme Court of the U.S. The justices hear the arguments about the federal law that represents if people who have already been accused of domestic violence can have the right to own firearms. 

According to The 29-year-old federal law, no it is not but nothing is confirmed before the judge hears the arguments. For many centuries in many cultures, it has been okay to beat your wife or behave like you own your wife. History Professor Laura Edwards of Princeton University said, 

“The idea that it was OK to beat your wife until 1970, I just find that offensive. There is a presumption that women in the past were really disempowered legally. … It’s just not true, and it wipes out the history of women’s legal activism in the past.”

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