The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case which gun and domestic violence prevention groups are warning could be a matter of life and death for thousands of abuse victims and their families.

Tuesday’s hearing on United States v Rahimi is seen as one of the most consequential cases with which the nine justices will grapple this term. At stake is how far the new hard-right supermajority of the court will go in unraveling the US’s already lax gun laws, even as the country reels from a spate of devastating mass shootings.

Also at stake, say experts, are the lives of thousands of Americans, overwhelmingly women, threatened with gun violence at the hands of their current or former intimate partners.

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    8 months ago

    If you need access to violence in order to balance out the power, you live in a shithole.

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      8 months ago

      So I guess all of reality everywhere for all women and AFABs is a shithole and therefore their very serious need for access to violence can be dismissed to save your idiotic political agenda.

      Or you can just be honest and say you don’t care about women. Go on, say it.