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WA: Armin Jahr shooting leaves some looking for legislative remedy
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... "Gun-control advocates in Washington have suggested various laws from requiring gun safes to trigger locks."
"'The firearms community gets a little frustrated about stuff like this,' said Dave Workman, who wrote a book on Washington gun rights and responsibilities and edits the Second Amendment Foundation's Gun Week magazine. 'Every time something like this happens, somebody wants to run down to Olympia and pass a law that affects a million gun owners in the state who didn't do anything wrong.'"
"It's likely that no legislation would have prevented Wednesday's accidental shooting at Armin Jahr, he said.The boy was believed to have gotten a gun from his [felon] mother's home ..." ... |
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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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