The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

    • @[email protected]
      1•11 months ago

      The Wild West is not the place you want to look at for constitutional (or even just moral) government practices.

      • Flying Squid
        2•11 months ago

        Yeah, the one part of the country in the 19th century that accepted black people as equals after the Civil War- we sure shouldn’t look to them for how the country should be today.

        • @[email protected]
          4•11 months ago

          Tell that to the Buffalo Soldiers in Brisbee, AZ. Racial prejudices were unfortunately brought West.

          • Flying Squid
            3•11 months ago

            Compared to the rest of the country? Black people could hold the same jobs as white people, including law enforcement and other powerful roles, and this was tolerated. Do you think they would have tolerated Bass Reeves anywhere else in the country?

            • @[email protected]
              0•11 months ago

              My point is that racism still existed in the West, often in various levels depending on the specific location. Pre civil war Southerns flocked West to claim states as slave states to attempt to secure the future of the institution of slavery.

              • Flying Squid
                2•11 months ago

                I didn’t mean to suggest that there was no racism in the West, just that there was a lot of equality compared to the rest of the country. The rights of black people were, in many parts of the West anyway, on or close to parity with white people as far as local governments were concerned.