Last Monday’s Supreme Court oral argument in NY State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen felt at times like a re-run of Curtis and Kuby. The AM radio talk show featured lefty lawyer Ron Kuby and Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa in crossfire chatter. But yesterday’s Supreme Court argument featured a strange alliance between former prosecutor Samuel Alito and an alliance of New York public defenders looking to void the New York law because it landed so many of their clients in the state prisons for long terms.

Justice Samuel Alito conveyed a subway shooter Bernard Goetz vision of New York. He seems to think the trains and platforms are populated by lots of illegal gun carriers, while law abiding doormen, dishwashers, and cleaning women are forced to go unarmed on trains, buses and “high crime” neighborhoods.

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