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Gun rights have been in the news for weeks following two shocking mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York - a fact that has not escaped the supreme court.

In his concurrence with the majority opinion, conservative justice Samuel Alito connects the latter shooting with the concealed weapons regulation that the court struck down. Will a person bent on carrying out a mass shooting be stopped if he knows that it is illegal to carry a handgun outside the home? And how does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator," wrote Alito, who was also the author of the draft opinion overturning abortion rights that leaked in May.