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Handguns at home: Supreme Court correct to rule for right to self-defense
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"In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a ban on handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment. ..." ...
"There was spirited and lively dissent in this split decision. That's no surprise in a case about gun rights in the United States. The legal arguments are substantial, not just abstract exercises in logic, history and interpretation."
"But we like the court's basic conclusion as it applies to the daily lives of U.S. citizens: The right to self-defense is fundamental; the right to legally own a handgun for that defense and keep it in your own home to protect yourself and your family in extreme circumstances falls within that right." ... |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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