{O/C} In a flabbergasting move due to spark tempestuous debate, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans do deserve the right to bring firearms in public for self-defence.
This comes as the Senate passed a gun safety bill, spurred by the two merciless slaughters that killed over 30 innocent victims.
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Where there's a will, there's a way. And U.S. Senators got their way in a vote of 65-33, approving the bipartisan Safer Communities Bill in the most powerful response ever to America's lingering gun violence conundrum.
Half measures aside, the only words lawmakers could muster were, it was the next best thing.
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CHUCK SCHUMER, Senate Majority Leader:
This is not a cure-all. For all the ways gun violence affects our nation, but it is a long overdue step in the right direction.
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CHRIS MURPHY, Senator (D, Connecticut):
What are we doing? Why are we here? We're answering those questions today. Not fully, but with enough force that anxious moms and dads and kids all across this nation can wake up tomorrow and be a little bit more confident that the adults who run this country actually care about their safety.
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The two mass shootings in Buffalo and at a Texas elementary school last month that afflicted 30 innocent Americans served as the impetus for Senators to step up to the plate.
Weeks of negotiations wrapped up with this modest but momentous step towards weeding out lethal gun violence.
But the US appears to have splintered in two given the Supreme Court's 6-3 vote that annulled a New York gun law that held potential terrorists back from concealing handguns in public.
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MARK SHERMAN, AP:
The court ruled 6 to 3 with its conservatives in the majority that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a gun in public for self-defence. Just as the court said more than a dozen years ago that there's a right to have a gun in your home for self-defence.
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But the squalls of fallout punched right away.
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ROB BONTA, California Attorney General (D):
It's a dark day. It's a sad day. It's a step back when it comes to public safety. Today's decision hurts public safety throughout the nation.
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Even President Biden voiced his dissatisfaction with the decision, citing a foreboding that America will be entangled in a heap of trouble.
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