There is something cruelly ironic about reading the recent Surgeon General’s report on gun violence and the Supreme Court’s June decision on the Second Amendment in United States v. Rahimi. Even though Rahimi upheld a ban on those with domestic-violence restraining orders against them possessing firearms, two of the conservative justices used concurrences to attack the notion that judges ought to pay attention to the consequences when deciding on the constitutionality of gun laws.

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