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"A space alien visiting the United States would surely be perplexed."
"Here, anyone can own an assault weapon -- a killing machine -- but possessing a gram of marijuana -- a shriveled up plant -- carries a prison sentence. Applicants must pass a background check to work at McDonalds[sic], but not to buy firearms at a gun show or on Craigslist. Debates rage on about whether or not fetuses are people, while children's lives are tragically cut short by bullets every day. Many states force us to wear seatbelts, but do not require locks on guns. Suspected terrorists, who would not be allowed on a commercial plane can even buy lethal weapons from gun dealers without triggering an alarm" ... |
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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