“Unsympathetic defendants make for bad precedents. This is what happened in the Rahimi case, where the Supreme Court opened the door a crack, allowing judges to believe they can create more exceptions to Second Amendment rights. Rahimi is cited as the reason for the upholding of the Gun Free School Zone Act in the Fifth Circuit.”
Unsympathetic defendants make for bad precedents. This is what happened in the Rahimi case, where the Supreme Court opened the door a crack, allowing judges to believe they can create more exceptions to Second Amendment rights. Rahimi is cited as the reason for the upholding of the Gun Free School Zone Act in the Fifth Circuit.
On January 29, 2023, 25-year-old Ahmed Adballa Allam had been living and traveling around the United States in his father’s Toyota RAV4 since July of 2022. He had purchased an AR-15 type rifle in Pennsylvania on the way to California. He had traveled to California and then to Texas sometime in early January 2023. Allam insisted on camping in the RAV4 near St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica School or near Temple Emanuel, a Jewish Synagogue in Beaumont, Texas.
The principal of the school was concerned about Allam’s actions and called the police several times per day. School staff and parents repeatedly contacted Allam and asked him to leave. Members of the Synagogue also asked him to leave several times. Until Allam was arrested, he had been contacted by police upwards of nine times. From 12newsnow.com:
By Dean Weingarten
