Plus: Facts of Uvalde Shooting Violated All 4 Steps of Effective School Security
June 24 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where the Supreme Court makes it clear that the Second Amendment allows law-abiding Americans to carry firearms in public to defend themselves. Amy Swearer breaks down the ruling. The circumstances of the massacre in Texas broke key aspects of school security, Steve Bucci writes. On the podcast, an Alabama congressman charts the president’s failings on inflation and health care. Plus: Biden proposes to deny equal protection to women; Virginia could charge protesters outside justices’ homes; and how America may benefit from China’s missteps. Twenty-five years ago today, the Air Force releases a 231-page report dismissing persistent claims that an alien spacecraft crashed in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.
In an opinion written by Clarence Thomas, a majority of six justices affirms that the Second Amendment means “the people” have a right not just to keep but to bear arms, including in public.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin can order the Virginia State Police superintendent to enforce the law making these protests a crime and arrest those violating the law at justices’ homes.
Talking about gas prices, Rep. Gary Palmer says: “It’s not the pandemic. It’s not Putin. It’s not profits. It’s Biden administration policy. And they’re not going to change.”
Beijing believes its huge market and closer economic links with the European Union will give it greater political leverage. So far, the EU has resisted China’s political pressure.
The Title IX changes effectively would force all schools that receive federal funding—from K-12 schools to universities—to conform to a radical version of gender ideology, or else.
