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Do Guns Mix With Democracy? The Fight Over Firearms in Government Buildings
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Technically, the policy that allows New Hampshire residents to carry guns into the statehouse specifies that weapons must be concealed, but the rule is not always enforced. “People are used to it,” Representative John Burt, a Republican, tells The Trace. “Even people that are against it just look the other way.” For observers of the gun debate, the frequency of fights over such laws makes them hard to ignore. The issue of firearms in government buildings — statehouses, city council offices, townhalls, among others — has become a flashpoint in state and local governments across the country. |
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(3/5/2016)
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Opponents, like those against campus carry, have yet to produce any evidence whatsoever that lawful carry in public buildings, where it is allowed, has had any negative consequences.
There is none. Pointing this out should be pro forma to shut them up.
If they can't prove their contentions, then their contentions have no validity. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(3/5/2016)
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Opponents, like those against campus carry, have yet to produce any evidence whatsoever that lawful carry in public buildings, where it is allowed, has had any negative consequences.
There is none. Pointing this out should be pro forma to shut them up.
If they can't prove their contentions, then their contentions have no validity. |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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