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Supreme Court allows the carrying of firearms in public in major victory for gun rights groups.

The belief that the Second Amendment means that individuals have a constitutional right to own guns is simply false. 

The reality: the the gun industry and gun fetishists have over the years been able to distort the amendment's original meaning, which was about arming citizen militias: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

See The Second Amendment's History by Beverly Bandler.

Ending Roe means death for black women

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Linda Goler Blount in the LA Times:

Let’s look at the facts. Black women already face significant health and economic disparities. Today the maternal mortality rate is three times as high for Black women as for white women. Black women are more likely to experience maternal health complications, like preeclampsia, than white women. And more than 1 in 5 Black women lives in poverty, compared to around 1 in 10 white women. And while just 13% of American women are Black, 38% of those receiving abortions are Black.