... guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon...[S]urely the Second Amendment does not remotely guarantee every person the constitutional right to have a "Saturday Night Special" or a machine gun without any regulation whatever. There is no support in the Constitution for the argument that federal and state governments are powerless to regulate the purchase of such firearms...", this ... our tragically high crime rate, the perception that it is getting worse and that public safety has all but ceased to exist. Centuries of racial injustice coupled with decades of urba...

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... % of all police departments have paramilitary units. Although the most common use is serving drug related warrants, more than 20% of police departments now also use these units to patrol urban areas. (www.csdp.org/factbook/military) This armament of police should be extremely frightening to people as war in the literal sense can now being mobilized against the people. Given ... are, in fact, proponents and organizers of the sale and distribution of narcotics themselves. Obviously such sources would be silenced fairly quickly given the powers available to the drug investigating machine. S...

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