Aurora rampage renews gun-control debate..
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Americans may never willingly give up their guns. Yet, they ought at least to recognize that the authors of the Second Amendment, although they championed the right to bear arms, would have been appalled that in the United States an epidemic of violence, much of it mindlessly random, has induced people to carry firearms to ensure their own protection. Self-defense it may be. Freedom it is not.
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two days after Loughner wounded 14 persons, including then Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and killed six others, the purchase of handguns rose by 60 percent in Arizona, by 65 percent in Ohio, by 38 percent in Illinois, and by 33 percent in New York.
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Heard on the eve news that gun sales were way up Monday..
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/o...ol-ar-2077976/
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