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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Repeal the Second Amendment

The best way to reduce the odds of another blood bath like the one at Virginia Tech is to amend the Constitution and abolish the right to bear arms.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Thursday, April 19, 2007 07:39 AM

    A foolish argument

    Far more people have died in officially sanctioned violence from states where the government has banned weapons to its citizens (Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, etc.) than have ever been killed by lone psychopaths. The real point of the Second Amendment is to serve as a last stop to prevent that sort of totalitarian behavior.

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