Clarence Thomas once opposed Highland Park's assault weapons ban, saying that the 'overwhelming

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majority' of those with the rifles use them lawfully

Nearly a decade before Monday's deadly mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that left six dead and dozens injured, the Chicago suburb banned assault rifles like AR‐15s and AK‐47s.

That 2013 ban was swiftly challenged and the case made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ultimately rejected to hear it and instead let a lower court's ruling in favor of the ordinance stand.

But at the time, conservative Justice Clarence Thomas — who joined the nation's highest court in 1991 — opposed Highland Park's prohibition on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, writing in a dissent that the "overwhelming majority" who use such weapons use them lawfully.

In Thomas' dissent, which was filed in December 2015 and joined by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, he called assault weapons "modern sporting rifles" and made references to the Second Amendment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/justice-clarence-thomas-once-opposed-highland-park-s-assault-weapons-ban-saying-that-the-overwhelming-majority-of-those-with-the-rifles-use-them-lawfully/ar-AAZecyE?cvid=7decee04f5434a9784df061d89f2a43c

Because shooting up a crowd of people is a great American sport.

[Ocelot II]

1. Even if "the overwhelming majority" of assault rifle owners use them lawfully,

it takes only one who doesn't to kill a whole lot of people in a very short time.

[ZonkerHarris]

2. amazing how muh death a small minority can deliver.

[Pantagruel]

3. Memo to Uncle Tom

It only takes one.

[delisen]

4. Says a lot about how we have arrived at these killing fields. nt

[elias7]

5. Overwhelming majority use them lawfully????? All you need is one to not do so.

That’s why they’re better out of people’s hands..

[kysrsoze]

6. To think I used to despise Scalia... but Thomas is so, so much worse

Scalia actually was aware of lines of constitutionality which he knew should not be crossed. Those lines don't exist for justices Pubic Hair, Beer Bong, Gorsuck, Alito and Barrett.