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How long has it been since you have had a calm, reasoned discussion with someone you don't agree with on gun rights?
Most of us have strong opinions one way or the other, and in this time of personalized information streams, sometimes it�s hard to understand why smart people can think so differently on this issue.
The Center is offering a chance to hear smart people on both sides of the issue present what they actually think and why, both with each other and then directly with the audience.
Join us at 7pm on October 17th in Hillberry A&B in the Student Center Building. There will be a moderated dialogue between the speakers, and then moderated conversation in a coffeehouse-type atmosphere. |
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mickey
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will discuss common ground as well as differences in the balance between gun ownership and public safety.
If the 'common ground' entails the need to 'balance gun ownership against public safety', the premise being that gun ownership is detrimental to public safety, I don't find anything in common with you.
Somehow I think I can avoid paying $5 to find out if it's as bad as I think it's going to be. |
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PHORTO
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| "We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government - even the Third Branch of Government - the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insist-ing upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges� assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad." - D.C. v. Heller (2008) |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. � George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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