America continues to sacrifice its babies to the altar of guns | Jill Filipovic

Three days. Three mass shootings. One state. Nineteen dead.

In the first three weeks of 2023, there have been 39 mass shootings in America. Gun violence is now the leading killer of American children.

States are also increasingly limited in what they can do about gun violence, thanks to a supreme court that has in the last 15 years radically revised a century of jurisprudence on guns to read into the constitution a ridiculous and ahistorical interpretation of the second amendment. Over and over again, when states try to pass the kind of commonsense gun legislation that voters want, rightwing gun groups sue; too often, they win.