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Argument: Handguns should be banned due to their uniquely dangerous concealability
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- Oral arguments in DC vs. Heller. March 19th, 2008 - "CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What is -- what is reasonable about a total ban on possession?
- MR. DELLINGER: What is reasonable about a total ban on possession is that it's a ban only an the possession of one kind of weapon, of handguns, that's been considered especially -- especially dangerous."
- [...]"MR. DELLINGER: But it's the -- the court protects weapons suitable for military use that are lineal descendants. I don't know why an improved bullet wouldn't be covered, unless you adopt the kind of reasonableness standard that we suggest, where you look to the fact that -- and I don't -- some people think machine guns are more dangerous than handguns -- they
- shoot a lot of people at once -- but a handgun is concealable and movable. It can be taken into schools, into buses, into government office buildings, and that is the particular danger it poses in a densely populated urban area."
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DC Chief of Police Cathy Lanier is a Totalitarian Stooge. March 18, 2008.[1]
