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Revenge of the Bitter Gun Owners

by Jacob Sullum

Last spring, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms, Democrats hoped the decision would neutralize the gun issue. Instead the ruling, by inviting debate over which kinds of gun control are constitutional, has made the issue more salient.

That's bad news for Barack Obama, who the National Rifle Association (NRA) says "would be the most anti-gun president in American history." The Democratic nominee pays lip service t ...

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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #1
Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:07 PM

What you so-called gun rights idiots need to understand is that the average American is not averse to owning a gun or blessing the right to own one. Even a concealable one. I personally want to see laws that allow law abiding citizens carry a gun. What we all have a hard time swallowing is the need to own a machine gun. Or the need of any ordinary citizen to own a WMD-type weapon that is meant to be used only in war. Or letting any old salt who walks into a gun store without any kind of check on his criminal or mental history buy whatever he wants and if he blows someone away with it that's just God's will.

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