"New York’s proper-cause requirement for obtaining an unrestricted license to carry a concealed firearm violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."
If you wanted to conceal carry a firearm in New York--most notoriously New York City--the authorities could require that you proved "proper cause."
If the state didn't like guns, didn't think people of a certain race should have guns, or just didn't like you, then the state could deny you a concealed carry permit. The Court decision changes the "may issue" standard to a "shall issue" standard. New York must have objective criteria for concealed carry. People who dislike guns claim this decision will result in greater carnage.
Most other states including my own have "shall issue" standards. Legally armed conceal carry people are not the people murdering folks.
In the Dobbs Case the Court overturned Roe v. Wade. This does not criminalize abortion federally. It just means that each state can decide for itself how to handle it.
Holding: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey are overruled; the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.
States like California or New York won't see any changes. Other states have people with different views so there will be some different laws on the books. A country with hundreds of thousands of abortions a year is in my view doing something wrong.
Many people I respect, including friends, family or associates, have argued that this decision turns women into second class citizens. I would just note that no man ever gets a legally recognized post-conception choice on whether he is truly ready to be a father. Not one.
If the man expresses doubts, frustrations, or resentments about that, there will be plenty of women and other men eager to shame him, guilt-trip him, remind him that he should have used birth control, and tell him that he must be responsible for his child. And if he still disagrees the state will take money from him or even put him in jail until he sees the light.
This extends to men who were raped, men who were underage when the child was conceived, or even men who were tricked into believing they were the father when they are not.
The Mississippi attorney general who won this case is a woman. One of the most vociferous pro-life legislators in Texas is a woman. Pro-life and pro-choice people are not separated by gender. People will continue to have different views on abortion. I respect that. But the fight will be in the legislatures instead of the Supreme Court. If abortion is as popular as some claim this should be an easy win for the pro-choice side.
