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...took guns from the residents without issuing receipts and that “shining on the misdeeds” that happened in places like New Orleans was an effective way of mobilizing gun supporters to fight for Second Amendment rights. Froman also took time to criticize the D.C. Gun Ban??a longstanding ban on handguns in the nation’s capital—calling it one of the “most draconian laws” in the country. “If anything in the world can possibly violate the Second Amendment, then surely...
...obvious value of hospital visitation rights, child custody, and retirement benefits—the stakes for gay and lesbian couples are clear. But we fail to see what the state, or for that matter those opposed to same-sex marriage, would gain in return by such a ban??besides moral edification. Since same-sex marriage was legalized following the SJC’s 2004 ruling, over 8,000 same-sex couples have married in the Commonwealth. We have yet to see any evidence that the sky is falling.Referenda have several important functions, but the dissolution of civil rights...
...October 15, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory in which drug manufacturers were required to label antidepressants with a “black box”—the most severe warning outside of an outright ban??describing the risk of suicidal behavior to children and adolescents. This action was promoted by a Columbia University study showing that two to three percent of children taking antidepressants had increased suicidal thoughts and actions, though the FDA has not shown antidepressants to be the precise cause. According to Medco Health Solutions, the last...
...prevent that unintended—and dangerous—outcome. On the other hand, if the intention of the new plan is to ensure enough beer at The Game such that students do not turn to hard liquor, then what is the remaining rationale for clinging to the ban??s remnants? Why prohibit the rest of the student body—indeed anyone and everyone else who wants to tailgate at The Game—from bringing their own kegs...
...ban??s bizarre and ineffective classification of assault weapons led Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center, a leading gun control advocacy group, to tell NPR this March: “If the existing assault weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t pass...