Word: prohibition
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...much greater a step is it to prohibit students from using them on their friends...
Though the N.R.A. says its resistance to gun control is just an assertion of something that the Constitution already forbids, judges have never read the Second Amendment to prohibit most gun control. "The Second Amendment is about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case...
...Control Inc. shies away from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before he was stopped. But even her proposal would permit clips of 10 cartridges or less. Would a measure so limited have mattered in last week's attack? Only...
Other corrections in the history of the Museum are in order, but let me mention merely one. Peretz states that President Lowell's hostility to the Museum, prompted he implies by his "hostility to almost anything that smacked of Jews," caused him to prohibit the curator of the Museum in 1926 from raising any funds for the museum at all. I think Lowell's anti-Semitism is well documented. But in fact he did not forbid the curator from raising funds in 1926. Rather, he crossed out certain names on a list of names submitted by the curator for approach...
...frightening just how great a stranglehold the NRA has had on our politicians. Congress is now considering the first-ever bill to prohibit the sale or transfer of guns to minors. The Senate version of the crime bill finally blocks the sale of Uzi and 18 other semiautomatic weapons capable of feeding 10 rounds of ammunition. But while it prohibits the further sale and manufacture of these 19 killers, the bill excludes 650 other types of hunting weapons from any type of regulation. And guns which have already been manufactured will remain on the shelves for sale. In addition...