Dr. Jonathan Metzl wrote an article for the Boston Review, titled “The Supreme Court Is Poised to Put Politics Ahead of Gun-Violence Prevention”.
Dr. Jonathan Metzl wrote an article for the Boston Review, titled “The Supreme Court Is Poised to Put Politics Ahead of Gun-Violence Prevention”.
New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, but at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings. A ruling against New York could overturn a decade of Second Amendment precedents in ways that unravel gun regulations in cities and states across the United States by rendering many lower-court rulings and state gun laws unconstitutional.
“Research has repeatedly shown that the notion of an imagined or speculative threat is often racialized in ways that drive gun markets…”
Jonathan Metzl
Director, Medicine, Health, and Society
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
Professor of Psychiatry