The US Supreme Court: An agent of political polarisation?

LET'S go first to the good news: On a Thursday morning, June 23, 2022, the US Senate made history by passing a bipartisan gun control bill, the most significant gun safety measure in decades.

Overcoming deep partisan divisions and at a time when conservatives have been pushing to expand gun rights, Democrats and Republicans responded to a series of recent mass shootings, reached a consensus and made a deal despite opposition from the gun lobby and its right-wing supporters.

And now let’s go to the bad news: Twelve hours earlier the US Supreme Court delivered a major blow to gun regulations, ruling in a 6-3 decision that Americans have a right to arm themselves in public and striking down state laws that placed limits on the right to carry arms outside the home.