TIMING: GOOD, BAD OR INDIFFERENT?

By Bob Walsh

SCOTUS is going to decide if it will be hearing an interesting and now timely case this week. It is Shew v. Malloy, and is the Connecticut “assault weapons” ban enacted after the Sandy Hook massacre.

At a regularly scheduled conference the court will determine if they will hear the case. The case challenges the Connecticut law enacted after the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in which case a slimy asshole murdered 20 students and six educators. (Are educators anything like teachers?)

Last October a U. S. Court of Appeals upheld the law, which also bans “high capacity” (actually standard capacity) magazines. The Sandy Hook shooter fired 154 rounds in less than five minutes, which could easily be done with a six-shot revolver or a bolt-action rifle. Killing is easy if there is nobody else around with a gun willing to object.

The smart money is saying the court will decline to hear the case, which will leave the lower court ruling intact.