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"Statistics show most murders are committed with guns. And so far this year, 76 percent of the 149 homicides committed in the District of Columbia were committed with guns. So why did the U.S. House of Representatives vote last week to rescind nearly all of Washington D.C.'s 28-year-old gun control laws?"
"According to some, the answer lies in the election-year politics of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and House Republicans, who pushed the measure so Democrats would have to decide on crossing the nation's powerful gun lobby weeks before a crucial election." ... |
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| For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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