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| NEWS Anti-Gun Researchers Undermine the Anti-Gun Narrative | |
| We have good news from a joint effort between the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins University. | |
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| LEGAL & LEGISLATION NEWS Retired Anti-Gun Justice Reveals Attempts to Thwart Landmark Heller Decision | |
| Few Supreme Court justices have been as avowedly opposed to the Second Amendment as John Paul Stevens, who retired from the high court in June 2010. Stevens wrote a lengthy dissent to the landmark decision of District of Columbia v. Heller and to its follow-up, McDonald v. Chicago. He then continued to advocate against those cases even after his retirement, including in a book proposing amendments to the Constitution and in a high-profile editorial published in the New York Times urging repeal of the Second Amendment. Now Stevens is publishing a memoir and has revealed what were by his own account extraordinary efforts to try to thwart the outcome of the Heller decision or at least to limit the scope of the Second Amendment’s individual right. | |
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| NEWS Engineering Professor Shares Thoughts on Constitutional Law, Calls for Handgun Ban | |
| In a recent piece for the Bangor Daily News ironically titled, “Why banning handguns makes sense,” Associate University of Maine Electrical Engineering Professor George Elliott struggled to argue why the tools of self-defense have no place in civilized society and are unworthy of constitutional protection. Unsurprisingly, some of the academic’s own statements refute his thesis. | |
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Ohio Ohio: Senate Committee to Consider Self-Defense Legislation Next Week |
