The US president said the decision ‘contradicts both common sense and the Constitution’
US President Joe Biden said he was “deeply disappointed” after the Supreme Court ruled that Americans can carry firearms in public without proving a special need to do so, in a decision which struck down a century-old New York law.
Commenting after the court voted 6-3 to do away with the firearms provision on Thursday, Biden argued the justices had scrapped an important law which allowed the New York state government to “protect its citizens.”
“This ruling contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all,” he wrote, insisting “we must do more as a society – not less – to protect our fellow Americans” in light of recent mass shootings in New York and Texas.
Passed in 1911, the law in question required New Yorkers to prove they had a “proper cause” to carry a concealed firearm outside their own…