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CT: Sandy Hook becomes focus in Governor Race
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The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has become an emotional issue in the final days of Connecticut’s close race for governor. Democrats gathered at the state Capitol Monday to warn that electing Republican Bob Stefanowski could risk the wide-ranging gun control measures passed by the General Assembly following the deadly Newtown mass shooting. They also claim electing someone backed by the NRA as Connecticut’s next governor would send the wrong message to the nation and destroy momentum for federal gun safety legislation. |
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“Bob believes we need to strike the appropriate balance between protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners and efforts to keep guns out of the hands of people that should not have them.”
Fundamental rights are NOT subject to "interest-balancing", Bob.
"We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government ... the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. . . The Second Amendment is no different. Like the First, it is the very product of an interest-balancing by the people[.]" - D.C. v. Heller (2008)
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