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PHORTO
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"We really view gun violence as a public health issue."
It is not. It is a crime issue. "Interest-balancing" has no place in any conversation concerning laws that burden fundamental rights.
"So we’re always going to look at the academic research to help inform our policy, positions and the types of legislation that we support and oppose," Roth said.
Wrong. You must look to the Constitution to understand what you can and can't do. Once you've sorted that out, THEN you can consider policy positions.
"[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - D.C. v. Heller (2008) |
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| As an individual, I believe, very strongly, that handguns should be banned and that there should be stringent, effective control of other firearms. However, as a judge, I know full well that the question of whether handguns can be sold is a political one, not an issue of products liability law, and that this is a matter for the legislatures, not the courts. The unconventional theories advanced in this case (and others) are totally without merit, a misuse of products liability laws. — Judge Buchmeyer, Patterson v. Gesellschaft, 1206 F.Supp. 1206, 1216 (N.D. Tex. 1985) |
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