On a new episode of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Radically Pragmatic podcast, PPI’s Director of Health Care Arielle Kane sits down with Everytown for Gun Safety’s Legal Director Jonas Oransky to discuss the latest developments in the bipartisan movement to pass gun safety legislation. The episode, titled “Dueling Decisions in the Fight for Gun Safety,” comes as President Biden signs a new bipartisan gun safety bill into law — the first in almost 30 years — against the backdrop of horrific mass shootings and a dangerous reversal of commonsense gun laws from the U.S. Supreme Court.
“These are provisions in the concealed carry laws of several states that SCOTUS struck down last week, that have helped those states have some of the lowest gun violence rates nationwide. New York’s law was on the books for over a century. It’s just a really disturbing turn of events also, that the Supreme Court is rewriting the process for how you evaluate whether common sense laws are allowed under the Constitution,” said Jonas Oransky.
Listen to the podcast here:
Read PPI’s full statement on the passage of the bipartisan gun safety bill here.
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