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...are, and what they mean to us. An overvierw of some U.S. and foreign laws that limit the use of guns, and commentary on gun control and its ppotential problems Thousands of people die every year in gun related deaths. People on both sides of the issue are...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2099361/is_gun_control_a_good_idea.html
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Mandatory gun regulation has long been the bête noire of Second Amendment advocates, who worry that it's the final step before firearm confiscation.
The surprise is that, even after last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling on gun rights, mandatory
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsPCAnswer/~3/8McOKeMZ9VU/entry5258192.shtml
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...fellas hit the jackpot with national publicity. Hopefully a discussion [will result] that will make it plain that good gun control is when a cop or a citizen has their gun in their holster. Just as we’d typically be unalarmed to see a cop with a piece on his...
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85130&Itemid=70
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...at the kind of gun control measures that can be expected from the Obama administration. An essay on the ineffectiveness of gun control. Outlawing gun ownership has been a proposed idea for years. These are the reasons why this policy would never solve the...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2025114/criminal_control_as_opposed_to_gun.html
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WASHINGTON — The Senate Wednesday rejected letting people carry hidden guns in 48 states if they have a concealed weapon permit in any one of them, a rare victory for gun control advocates in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been friendly to
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New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/07/24/news/d3-concealed.txt
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About a week ago, Robb over at Sharp as a Marble pointed to an op-ed by one Marc Rubin at the Examiner.com website that included this jaw-dropping quote:
In an earlier article about the 2nd amendment I proved beyond a shadow of any doubt that the
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The Smallest Minority
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/07/refuting-irrefutable.html
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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told CNSNews.com that he is not satisfied with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s answers to questions about the Second Amendment, particularly her ruling that the right to bear arms does not apply to
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CNSNews.com
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/checker.aspx?rsrcID=51225
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Now making their way to the Court are cases about whether the right to bear arms also applies to the 50 states via the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. If it doesn't, then Heller is a hollow shell....
The Fourteenth Amendment was
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Sentencing Law and Policy
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2009/07/one-more-take-on-sotomayer-and-the-status-of-the-second-amendment.html
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LEAHY: I've owned firearms since my early teen years. I suspect a large majority of Vermonters do. I enjoy target shooting on a very regular basis at our home in Vermont. So I watched that decision rather carefully and found it interesting.
LEAHY: And
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BlueOregon
http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/07/attacks-on-sonia-sotomayor-by-rightwing-gun-rights-groups-dont-hold-up.html
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TOOBIN: You mentioned the surprise that some presidents get in their Supreme Court nominees. That’s actually much more the exception than the rule. Most justices turn out to be just what’s advertised. Look at the last five on the court: Alito,
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Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/07/15/cnns-toobin-preposterous-believe-2nd-amend-right-back-harvard
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by taxchurches
July 15, 2009 5:36 AM EDT
What gibberish is this in the second paragraph? There is no "2nd Amendment right of self-defense." Reporters evidently can't read these days, let alone write. The 2nd
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CBS News
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) recently finished questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her views on the Second Amendment, specifically her role in the 2nd Circuit's decision in Maloney v. Cuomo, which
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Hit and Run
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/16cfWHr8A-I/134772.html
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I wouldn't expect anything different from any Obama nominee, of course, but Second Amendment scholar Nelson Lund takes Sotomayor to task for her studious avoidance of thinking hard about citizens' gun rights when given a chance.
Sure, the Second
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Hit and Run
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/dDH5FWNVyLY/134770.html
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Those liberals that signed the brief, I suspect, are concerned more with the Privileges or Immunities Clause than with the incorporation of the Second Amendment.
Can someone explain to me why incorporation would make a bigger difference than simply
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/posts/1247270474.shtml
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BELLEVUE, Wash., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several of the nation's leading gun rights activists, including the heads of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation, today joined to oppose the
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-07-2009/0005056193&EDATE=
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Could you summarize the body count on a daily basis in one post like you did here? Several times of the past few weeks I've come in here and the entire first page of the site are stories about people getting shot, stabbed, murdered, burned to death,
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Chicago Tribune
http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/news/local/~3/8FDBBCLH1_o/chi-violent-july-4th-link,0,918970.storylink
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Last week was the first anniversary of the District of Columbia v. Heller, where the Supreme Court for the first time declared that the Second Amendment indeed protects an individual right to own guns in the home for self-defense. It was a great
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/aWCbSdCJYW4/134542.html
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Gun Owners of America applauds immediate past NRA President Sandy Froman, who stepped up to the plate last week with a call to arms for all NRA members to vigorously oppose the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. (See the article below).
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Soldier of Fortune
http://www.sofmag.com/wp/2009/06/goa-applauds-call-to-action-on-judge-sotomayor-from-nras-past-president/
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Some years or
decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan
Act, one of Americas first
gun control laws.
New York state
senator
Timothy Sullivan, a corrupt Tammany Hall politician,
represented New Yorks Red Hook district. Commercial
travelers
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V Dare
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/090625_gun_control.htm
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court’s landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. A heated debate has started in the U.S.
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyFroman/2009/06/24/nra_members_must_oppose_sotomayor
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A Democratic senator said Thursday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sees a 2008 ruling affirming Americans' right to own guns for self-defense as settled law.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said Sotomayor told him at a private
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Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3918335
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Recently, gun control has moved to the forefront of Wisconsin politics, with various aspects of the issue
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The Badger Herald
http://badgerherald.com/oped/2009/06/05/wisconsin_gun_contro.php
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President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, owes the American people an explanation on her view of the Second Amendment.
Most nominees come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and refuse to answer questions
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The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org//Press/Commentary/ed060409c.cfm
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled in January 2009 that states do not have to obey the Second Amendment’s commandment that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Now it might have been more informative to say that she was one
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/posts/1244004883.shtml
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The Chicago-based U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals -- agreeing with the Second Circuit in New York but disagreeing with the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco -- held today that the second amendment does not apply to the states. Following the famous
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Ludwig von Mises Institute
http://blog.mises.org/archives/010059.asp
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It is an interesting way to decide (or not decide) this case. Would it follow then that similar rules should apply to first amendment rights? That has not been the way, for example, school prayer cases have been decided. Why would the 2nd Amendment
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Capitol Fax Blog
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2009/06/02/this-just-in-215/
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Ambulance Driver sent me an interesting excerpt from the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled Handguns, Health, and the Second Amendment, written by Leonard H. Glantz, J.D., and George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H. ("J.D." is Juris
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The Smallest Minority
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/05/ah-yes-guns-as-disease-vector-meme.html
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Second Amendment advocates are responding warily to President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said on Wednesday that "Judge
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsHorserace/~3/telemH_ywZE/entry5044428.shtml
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In a peculiar but not unprecedented turn of events, an anti-gun control plaintiff lost his case, last month's Nordyke v. King, but nonetheless managed to elicit a groundbreaking pro-gun rights declaration from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/i-YSacJ1BLw/133331.html
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LEWISTON, Idaho – Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick says gun owners don't need to worry about their gun rights being eroded in the current U.S. Congress.
"There is no possibility there is going to be any gun control in this Congress," Minnick told the Lewiston
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The Olympian
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theolympian-Northwest/~3/g-FflSp9psM/839489.html
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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Public attitudes on a pair of contentious national issues -- gun control and abortion -- have moved in a more conservative direction over the past year. In both cases, the changes have been driven in part
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Pew Research Center
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1212/abortion-gun-control-opinion-gender-gap
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Big news for constitutional law junkies, not so big for gun owners. We’re dealing here with the doctrine of “incorporation,” the notion that some — but not all — of the rights in the Bill of Rights protect people not only from the federal government
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Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/20/ninth-circuit-second-amendment-also-protects-gun-owners-from-state-law/
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by artelkhuntere
April 12, 2009 8:36 PM EDT
there is no gun show loop hole. the laws on the books need to be enforced. what % of gun violence is there compared the the total population. Look at countries were
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4937729n
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During the 7:00 p.m. hour of Saturday’s CNN Newsroom, anchor Don Lemon pushed the view that Barack Obama should try to emulate European gun laws as a way of reducing gun violence in America as he discussed the subject with four guests. During an
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Newsbusters
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/04/10/cnn-s-lemon-suggests-obama-learn-europe-s-strict-gun-laws
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They had more in common than unleashing carnage (AP) -- nearly every gunman in this monthlong series of mass killings was legally entitled to fire his weapons.
So what does that say about the state of gun control laws in this country? One thing appears
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Buffalo News
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEGAL_GUNMEN?SITE=NYBUE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Of the three network evening newscasts, ABC's World News, substitute hosted by Diane Sawyer, uniquely seemed to lament the lack of political interest in enacting new gun laws to combat what correspondent Dan Harris earlier called "a signature American
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Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/04/03/abc-frets-no-real-urgency-meaningful-gun-control-stop-signature-ameri
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During a segment on Friday’s Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull program, CNN tried to perpetuate left-wing stereotypes about gun owners, and sent mixed messages about whether or not President Obama and his administration is pushing for gun control.
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Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/03/30/cnn-even-obama-gun-control-agenda-gun-owners-might-even-be-paranoid
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TOPEKA | Next year, Kansans will vote whether to change the state constitution to guarantee individual gun rights.“It is the law of the land today in every state. They (supporters) would like to make sure it stays that
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1113251.html
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Those of us who love liberty have a fight on our hands.
Throughout the 2008 election cycle, Barack Obama espoused support for the Second Amendment. He said he agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Heller case against the D.C. gun ban,
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Pajamas Media
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/common-sense-gun-laws-obamas-attack-on-the-second-amendment/
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The most bizarre thing is that there is only one part of our Constitution that is considered inviolate and that's the Second Amendment.
We can explain away infringements of freedom of assembly, of speech, of the press, but the right to bear arms is
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Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200903170006
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"I believe in the Second Amendment, I believe in the people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away."
The recent Senate vote to ensure that Washington D.C.
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NorthJersey.com
http://www.northjersey.com/r?19=961&43=271846&44=41273807&32=4497&7=309037&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fopinion%2FUpholding_gun_rights_in_Washington_DC.html
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WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association warned in a campaign ad that if Barack Obama were elected president he would try to take away hunters’ guns and ammunition. But with pro-gun Democrats a powerful force in Congress, it is already pretty clear
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Boston Herald
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1155988&srvc=rss
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Rifle Association warned in a campaign ad that if Barack Obama were elected president he would try to take away hunters' guns and ammo. But with pro-gun Democrats a powerful force in Congress, it's already pretty clear
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ReadingEagle.com
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GUN_RIGHTS?SITE=PAREA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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In September the National Rifle Association unveiled a $15 million advertising campaign urging voters in key states to “Defend Freedom” and “Defeat Obama.” It declared that the Illinois senator “would be the most anti-gun president in American history.”
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/rFMMLizdOuk/130857.html
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The Tenth Circuit’s three-decade record of Second Amendment cases was a disgrace to the rule of law.
It was not a disgrace for wrong results. Almost all the decisions involved restrictions on narrow classes of especially dangerous weapons, or the
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/posts/1232220029.shtml
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Who is it for? The criminal or the law abiding citizen? If you take my
guns away, the ones I use for target shooting, hunting, self defense or
collect, are you going to take away the “bad guys” guns?
Are the bad guys going to just walk up and hand them
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Grizzly Groundswell
http://grizzlygroundswell.com/archives/5959
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On the last date of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 spring session, justices declared by a 5-4 decision in D.C. v. Heller that, yes, the Second Amendment does secure an individual right to keep and bear arms. With that, the high court voided the District
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/WxV81uppV2E/129991.html
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In previous career record, Obama is by far the most extreme anti-gun major party presidential nominee in American history. Regarding the Second Amendment, Obama's radical opposition to traditional American rights, combined with his vacuous rhetoric
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/posts/1225734026.shtml
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Hal Herring, High Country News - For two decades, many liberals have thrived on despising the NRA and its members. Those who believe in gun control often hold enormous prejudice against those who don't. But there are already reams of laws pertaining to
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City Desk
http://prorev.com/2008/10/why-democrats-need-to-abandon-gun.html
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Second Amendment decision in D.C. v. Heller may have the "unintended consequence" of helping to enact stronger gun laws, according to a report issued today by the Legal Action Project of the Brady
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YubaNet
http://yubanet.com/usa/Supreme-Court-s-Second-Amendment-Decision-May-Help-Fight-Against-Gun-Violence-Brady-Center-Report-Finds.php
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