Word: gunness
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...Golden Touch salon in Greenwich in the mid 1970s. Skakel, a then bushy-haired youngster had sat in the hairdresser's chair wearing a plaid shirt and trousers while speaking to a young woman. Tucciarone said Skakel was angry and told the girl he wanted to take a gun and kill someone. "You can't do that," the girl said, and Skakel allegedly replied "Why not, I killed before." Defense attorney Michael Sherman asked Tucciarone why he never told police in the past and only came forward in April this year. Tucciarone replied by saying he had once read...
...Supreme Court ruling that the Staff cites, Miller v. U.S. (1939), did hold that guns rights were only protected with regards to militias. Still, consider how the court defined “militia” in that decision: “[A]ll males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.” These “males” it should also be noted, “were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves,” according to the court. The Miller case, therefore, is hardly a ringing endorsement of widespread gun...
More disturbing than the Staff’s position on Ashcroft, though, is its ludicrous call for the repeal of the Second Amendment. Individual gun rights have been a sacred element of American freedom since the colonial era, and no U.S. Congress in its right mind would ever choose to repeal this right...
...Staff’s ultimate hope, it appears, is for the enactment of prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...
There’s no way to ever have a society where there are no guns; likewise, it’s impossible to have a society where the bad guys won’t be able to acquire firearms through illegal avenues. The only reasonable solution is to vigorously enforce the federal government’s existing gun statutes—of which there are many—and afford law-abiding citizens the freedom of self-protection...