In June 2022, The Supreme Court, stacked with Trump appointees, overturned Roe v Wade, siding with religious conservatives who claim that all life is precious and must be protected, even when just an amorphous collection of cells in the womb. That this protection of life can cause unspeakable harm to women who want or need to terminate a pregnancy is irrelevant. Life, life, life! In June of 2024, the Supreme Court conservative majority, in continuing its legacy of callousness and cruelty to those post-birth, struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks (enacted to get Republicans off the hook after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting). The bump stock is a lovely gun accessory that converts your mundane, everyday AK semi automatic weapon into a much more efficient killing tool. Just what every American needs in today’s conservative fear-mongering world. Again, we can thank Donald Trump for this gang of conservative justices, some of whom clearly are on the take, and others who flat-out lied to their Senators during their confirmation hearings (so much for Leviticus 19: 11-13 and stare decisis). Death, death, death! This ruling puts every student in school, every worshiper in church, synagogue or mosque, every grocery shopper, every bowler, every concert and movie goer at greater risk of some angry aggrieved loser who chooses to shoot up a venue to vent his spleen easily and efficiently, killing the maximum number of innocent people with a minimum amount of effort. These (in)Justices are cloaked in a Supreme disdain for sound judgment, compassion and common sense in their contortionist interpretations of the law as they pander to conservative mega donors and their own personal beliefs, disingenuously saying that Congress can change the law, and enact restrictions that could protect so many post-birth lives. They know full well that Congress lacks the will (and the willingness to give up NRA donations) to act. These above-the-law don’t-look-behind-the-curtain Supremes are crossing their fingers and toes that Trump will return to the White House to complete this trifecta sweep of legislative, judicial and executive branches to continue to perpetrate this conservative scourge of contempt for women as anything beyond a gestational vessel, and lethal disregard for any safeguards for rational gun ownership that would protect the rest of us from the permission and promotion of gun overkill accessories that have already and will continue to take too many innocent lives.