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...Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a Washington, D.C., law that bans almost all forms of gun ownership. It is the first time since 1939 that the Supreme Court will have weighed in on gun control...
...CROSSHAIRS With key Justices signaling early on that they think the Constitution protects a person's right to bear arms, the D.C. gun ban may fall. If so, the real question is how broadly the court will rule: you have the right to a handgun at home, but what about automatic or concealed weapons? Clarity on the issue may be an elusive target...
Though the decision is likely to provide fresh ammunition for pro-gun forces, gun-control lobbyists are conceding little. Establishing an individual right to possess guns could amount to "more of a symbolic victory for the pro-gun community than a victory with great practical significance," says Dennis Henigan, vice president for law and policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He notes that while the majority of justices "expressed skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity...
...More palpable are the after-effects of a nationwide weapons ban between 2003 and 2005. Some 88% of Sao Paulo's homicides are committed with guns, and the federal restriction on arms sales - short-lived though it was, after having been voted down in a referendum - meant less weapons were being sold openly. The effects were especially acute in Sao Paulo, where the state government had already stopped automatically renewing gun permits and seen the number of legally owned firearms fall from 80,000 to around...
...China into the mainstream." The whole world stands to gain, he pointed out, from a peaceful and unified China-not least the 6 million Tibetans in China and Chinese-occupied Tibet. "But," he added, "genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun...