This morning Supreme Court ruling marks a major moment for a country divided over access to guns.

On that and more, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Cape Heart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart

associate editor for the Washington Post.

Gentlemen, happy Friday, so nice to see you both.

Jonathan about this, the Rahimi case that I mentioned. This marks really the first time

that the court has affirmed a gun control measure after a very long stretch of

moving in the opposite direction. What are your takeaways of this?

Well this is one of those cases where a sigh of relief I think could be heard throughout the country, especially for a court where people have

been so geared up waiting for the worst, waiting for the worst decisions to come out.

And on this one in particular, especially after the Heller decision

from I think it was 2022, which decimated New York City's gun safety laws, the idea that people actually thought the United States

Supreme Court would say it's okay to be a domestic abuser and keep your gun. The fact

that people thought that that was a possibility shows you just how far the court has swung to the right and how low in terms of esteem lots of people hold the court. But the court made the right decision and clearly it was

one at the at an 8-1 decision right it was clearly it was the right thing to do morally but

also the right thing to do legally.

I mean the Heller decision that Jonathan mentions that was Justice Antonin Scalea

devoted gun rights activist who said yes there is a Second Amendment confers a

right to own a gun.

But he also said in that ruling

that governments can put these restrictions in place.

And the court seemed to echo that today.

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