Hundreds gathered to protest the latest case taken up by
the Supreme Court.
Oral arguments were heard involving a case that would ban
those with domestic violence restraining orders from possessing A firearm.
The challenge comes from a man that was the subject
of a restraining order and was involved in five shootings.
His attorneys are banking on the court's decision in 2022
to make it easier to acquire handguns.
I really want to bring it back to 2022,
where the Supreme Court issued its decision in Nyssurpa V
Berlin.
And basically in that decision,
the majority opinion issued by Clarence Thomas basically said that
courts cannot consider.
Modern interests and modern lives when ruling on whether or
not gun safety laws are constitutional.
Basically, Bruin said that judges should only consider the history
and tradition of the United States and completely disregard the
government's interest in public safety and the lives of 21st
century Americans here. I think that the Supreme Court really
has the chance to fix what it said and ruin.
There's a very large connection between mass shootings and domestic
violence,
as the shooter at my elementary school actually committed an
active domestic violence as his first act of violence that
day.
So this issue is very,
very near and dear to my heart because the way
I see it,
if you allow domestic abusers to have access to guns,
that is allowing and opening the door for violence inside
the home and outside of the home as more mass
shootings could come to happen.
Expressed concerns saying that more harm could come to victims
depending on how judges rule.
According to the National Library of Medicine,
a victim or survivor of intimate partner violence is five
times more likely to die when an abusive partner has
access to a gun.
Tyena Patterson was 15 when her mother's ex-boyfriend threatened her
family with a gun.
We were scared. We didn't really know what to do
until he said I have a gun and when we
heard,
when I heard those words,
I immediately grabbed my 2 little sisters and we went
to my room and we hid underneath our bed and
started praying to God.
And when he heard that the police were being called,
he ran off. And thankfully,
no shots were fired that day.
Not a legal expert and I'm not a lawyer,
but I am a survivor and I hope to have
the justice side on our side and protect us,
not abusers.