text:  Now, it doesn't have that power constitutionally. There's nothing in the Constitution that says, well, if it's a public health emergency, do whatever you want all the time forever. That's not what the Constitution says, but the government has set that precedent for itself. So that's the real point. They want to take advantage of that precedent, recast gun violence in medical terms so that they can then do literally anything they want to combat the quote unquote epidemic.