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Advocates Duel Over Who’s Winning Gun Control Battle in the States
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After being thwarted in Congress following the 2012 school shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., gun control activists have scored some important victories in states around the country.
One of the biggest wins came in Washington State. In November, voters by a wide margin approved a state ballot measure extending, to gun shows and other private firearms transactions, a requirement for buyer background checks.
But which side has the momentum in the struggle around the nation pitting advocates of tighter controls against supporters of expanded gun rights? That remains a tough call. |
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Millwright66
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The "Antis" may be celebrating, but they haven't "won the battle"; yet. This law still has to pass judicial review. If we are a "nation of laws". Its equally possible we've become a "nation of power", where those with the power make the rules.
Although most americans don't realize it, we're in the midst of a civil war. Or, more accurately, a rebellion. Mainstream americans - of every color, race, class, religion and background - are discovering they're confronting ever-increasing government intrusion into their private lives on a daily basis. And discovering resistance has consequences. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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