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Gun control is not the answer to America's gun violence. In the recent mass shootings, the shooters purchased their weapons legally. Likewise, the policies promoted by gun control activists would not impact mass shootings. Last year, the RAND Corp. conducted a survey of academic research and did not find any of the policies they looked at would reduce mass shootings: “We found no qualifying studies showing that any of the 13 policies we investigated decreased mass shootings.” |
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| The Constitution and Bill of Rights are non negotiable. No compromise... |
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In Miller, the Court assumed arguendo that the defendant had an individual right to bear arms. It ignored the gov'ts argument that the 2A only guaranteed a collective right and went straight to the type of weapon at issue. In doing so, it set the criteria for what arms are "protected" - in common use, have militia utility, could contribute to the common defense or are "any part of the ordinary military equipment." It ruled that Miller's sawed-off shotgun was not protected, and it closed with the dictat that the 2A must be applied using the criteria it had set forth.
"Miller stands only for the proposition that the Second Amendment right, whatever its nature, extends only to certain types of weapons." - D.C. v. Heller (2008) |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States....Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America — Gazette of the United States, October 14, 1789. |
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