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MI: Maybe its time to rethink allowing guns in Michigan Capitol, officials say
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It happens at least once a year at the Michigan Capitol: Armed demonstrators openly carry firearms into the historic building and watch the Legislature from galleries overlooking the state House and Senate chambers.
There are no metal detectors, no weapon checks and no policy to prohibit loaded weapons.
But longtime observers say the scene that unfolded Thursday at the Michigan Capitol where riled protesters armed with rifles heckled lawmakers from the spectator gallery and shouted at police, garnering national attention was far different than annual Second Amendment rallies, where gun activists celebrate their rights. |
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PHORTO
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Were they carrying lawfully? Yes.
Was anybody shot or otherwise injured? No.
Was any crime committed? No.
So, what is the justification for changing the law? |
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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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