By Cass Sunstein Bloomberg View The use of the Second Amendment, to block consideration of sensible gun control measures, is a national disgrace. And conservatives themselves have explained why this is true. For decades, conservatives have objected to the use of constitutional provisions as a political weapon, insisting that controversies should be resolved in democratic […]
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The right to bear arms
Right after the horrible tragedy in Las Vegas, it seems that everyone is on a gun control rant. Are elected officials going to stop airplanes from flying? That was the weapon used to take down New York City’s Twin Towers. How about car-truck bans? Vehicles were used to mow down and kill people in London […]
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Lawmakers gun down bill that sought to arm more college students
AUGUSTA — House members shot down a proposal Tuesday that would have allowed people with concealed carry permits to carry their firearms on public colleges except in dorms and in entertainment facilities that post signs barring their possession. By a 90-56 vote, House members turned aside a plea by the measure’s sponsor who worried that […]
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Legislators aim to take muzzle-loaders from the hands of dangerous felons
AUGUSTA — People convicted of violent crimes or those that involved a gun are generally barred from possessing a firearm ever again. But there’s an exception. Partly because the federal government doesn’t recognize as a firearm a muzzle-loading gun — the type of weapon soldiers used during the Revolutionary War. Maine allows those generally prohibited […]
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Question 3: Requiring more background checks has people up in arms
Do you want to require background checks prior to the sale or transfer of firearms between individuals not licensed as firearms dealers, with failure to do so punishable by law, and with some exceptions for family members, hunting, self-defense, lawful competitions, and shooting range activity? A controversial initiative on next month’s ballot would require criminal […]
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Obama, Clinton wrong about guns
I am an American, I am free to speak my piece, and I don’t care what the rest of Maine thinks. But when President Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton say that someone carrying a handgun or an AR-15 assault rifle for protection in this country is unnecessary — that is crazy. How many red […]
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Rep. Chellie Pingree joins gun protest on U.S. House floor
WASHINGTON — Rebellious Democrats disrupted the House’s legislative work on Wednesday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun control measures. Exasperated Republicans were forced to recess while cutting off the C-SPAN cameras that showed the protest. A group of nearly 100 Democrats led by […]
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal of semi-automatic weapon ban
Data curated by InsideGov WASHINGTON — Acting in the aftermath of the San Bernardino mass shooting, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from gun owners who challenged a Chicago suburb’s ban on assault weapons. Two conservative justices said they would have heard the case and struck down the ban. The court, though, left […]
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Clinton spouting gun nonsense
In an Associated Press article in the Sun Journal (Nov. 4), Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton states that she wants to make several changes involving gun control, one of which is to overturn the law shielding gun manufacturers from lawsuits. Hello, anybody home? If laws are passed that will hold gun manufacturers responsible for […]
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Who knew? Guns actually save lives …
Of course. It makes perfect sense. Why couldn’t I see it before? There could never have been a Holocaust had the Jews been armed. Granted, the Nazis swept aside the armies of Poland and France like dandruff, and it took six years for Great Britain — later joined by Russia and the United States — […]