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"It's the biggest, fiercest debate taking place across America. But it's poisoned from the get-go by a Tower of Babel predicament."
"In disputes over the future of gun laws, people espousing different positions often literally don't understand each other."
"'The sides are speaking different languages,' says Harry Wilson, author of 'Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms.'"
"Many of the most frequently used words and phrases in this debate mean different things to different people -- or, in some cases, don't have clear meanings to anyone. From terms like 'assault weapons' to the battle between 'gun control' and 'gun rights,' the language in the national conversation is making it tougher to find common ground." ... |
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Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children. — Dave Kopel and Dr. Michael S. Brown, Prohibition Fever, NationalReview.com |
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