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McDonald v. Chicago (2010) is one of the landmark Supreme Court cases featured in the KTB Prep American Government and Civics series designed to acquaint users with the origins, concepts, organizations, and policies of the United States government and political system. The goal is greater familiarization with the rights and...
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) is one of the landmark Supreme Court cases featured in the KTB Prep American Government and Civics series designed to acquaint users with the origins, concepts, organizations, and policies of the United States government and political system. The goal is greater familiarization with the...
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United States v. Lopez (1995) is one of the landmark Supreme Court cases featured in the KTB Prep American Government and Civics series designed to acquaint users with the origins, concepts, organizations, and policies of the United States government and political system. The goal is greater familiarization with the rights...
Journalist German Lopez writes: The US is unique in two key — and related — ways when it comes to guns: It has way more gun deaths than other developed nations, and it has far more guns than any other country in the world. People are attributing our gun...
Facebook has banned private gun sales on its social networks. The company has said that it would remove posts and potentially ban accounts that violate its regulated goods policies, which now includes the unlicensed sale of guns on Instagram as well. No Gun Sales Through Facebook I’ll admit...
How did we arrive at this point: an America full of citizens with private military-grade arsenals, where any attempt to curb the dangers presented by the proliferation of private weapon stockpiles results in a high-pitched shriek that the solution to gun violence is more guns? Where a president who asks...
The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence developed a point system that measures the relative strength of all 50 states’ gun laws with states gaining points for laws that are strict and states losing points for laws that are more lenient. States gain points for laws that require universal...
Ben Carson is on a mission, and part of it entails hanging red meat for some in the electorate. He has contended that the Holocaust would’ve been “greatly diminished” if the Jews had guns. Sure. so would’ve slavery if blacks were armed, and internment if the Japanese were armed....