Ohio adults strongly favor a ban on high-powered rifles such as the AR-15, statewide polling has once again found. [More]What are the criteria to determine how much they know about the reasons behind the right to keep and bear arms?
I do note some comment posters seem to not know who uses "high power."
[Via Jess]
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A citizen’s constitutional rights can hardly be infringed simply because a majority of the people choose that it be.
— SUPREME COURT OF THE US, WESTBROOK V. MIHALY, 2 CAL 3D 756
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the Courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights, may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
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