government accused texas of nullifying court precedent in a brazen attack on the supremacy of federal law. then on wednesday, the court will hear a challenge to a 108-year-old new york law that requires a license to carry a firearm, which could give the court the chance to gut local and state gun regulation at a time when gun deaths are reaching new highs. joining me now, civil rights attorney maya wily and director of the center for medicine, health and society at vanderbilt university, dr. jonathan metzel, author of the dying of whiteness. two of my favorite people in the whole wide world. i m glad to have you on to talk about these two important issues. maya, the abortion arguments are tomorrow, they re on monday. why is why should we be watching with great interest this case on monday?
person. is that person being stalked. is that person robbed? is that person a private detective? if someone feels like they need a gun, they shouldn t get to carry one. the reason this is important, two main reasons. number one is this case has been on the books for as we say over a century, but it taps into three 300 years of precedence in this country that says on one hand, yes, you have a second amendment right to carry a weapon, to own a weapon in your home, not to carry it in public. that wasn t true in the wild west. it wasn t true in the frontier. it wasn t true after the civil war. all these factors. so there is tons of precedent here that says that locales can regulate guns in public. and the second reason this is important is because the minute you open the door, and start telling people that you can carry a gun if you fear you might get attacked, i have a great book, dying of whiteness, as you said, and tons of other data, that the minute people