on the ceaseless murders of school children by the firing of military assault rifles

"No other nation has a Supreme Court that claims its Founding Fathers wanted to make it possible for any individual to get military-grade weapons and kill like a combat soldier, spewing bullets from high-capacity magazines at split-second rapidity, racking up the tiny corpses before the police can possibly arrive. These murder machines cannot be controlled as we control other dangerous things, from cars to planes to drugs, because these are guns, and guns are sacrosanct. What makes them so? The Second Amendment. Because of it, guns and their use are beyond criticism or control." 

Gary Wills, "The Court Kills: Why do we slaughter our own children? Because the Supreme Court condones it," New York Review of Books, April 4, 2023, available at www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/04/the-court-kills/