A liberal Supreme Court justice, ruling in Monday’s abortion rights case, disparaged layers of regulations targeting wrongdoers as ineffective, a line that is being circulated among Second Amendment advocates who agree that more gun control won’t stop bad guys with guns.

Writing the majority opinion in the Texas abortion case, Justice Stephen Breyer cited the headline-grabbing case of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell in shrugging off how regulations on clinic behavior like Texas wanted wouldn’t have stopped his criminal acts.

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