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...available. Last Monday, the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position on the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” reinterpreting it as an individual right to own guns rather than a collective right to bear arms in a militia. Ashcroft??s policy reversal confirms many concerns about his appointment and verifies the National Rifle Association’s boast during the 2000 election that it would be working out of the Bush White House...
...Ashcroft??s decision to crack down on doctors while the nation is preoccupied with international events is especially alarming. Oregon is the only state that has passed a law legalizing assisted suicide and Ashcroft seems to want to make the state an example so others will not follow suit. So far, the other 49 states prohibit doctors from dispensing controlled substances for the purpose of ending a patient’s life. Oregon became the exception in 1994, when 51 percent of the state’s voters approved a referendum establishing the state’s Death...
Defenders of the Oregon law, including some people who personally oppose legalized physician-assisted suicide, have accused Ashcroft and the Bush Administration of hypocrisy. All five of Oregon’s House members have condemned Ashcroft??s action against the state. Ashcroft seems to support states’ rights only when the states are exercising their rights in a manner that pleases him and the president...
...still be planning terrorist attacks, and the FBI wanted to find out what kind of firepower they had. The federal government keeps records of gun purchases for 90 days after the background check, and a limited search found that at least two detainees had recently bought guns. But John Ashcroft??s Justice Department has forbidden the FBI from examining the rest of the records and is now trying to have them all destroyed...
...dismissive of fundamental liberties and of the right to privacy in all other walks of life, Ashcroft seems determined to protect the privacy of gun owners—even if they’re members of al-Qaeda. In the words he used before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft??s decision may not give pause to America’s friends, but it quite literally “gives ammunition to America’s enemies...