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"Supreme Court should uphold local, state regulation of guns"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this editorial from my hometown Columbus Dispatch in this morning's paper.  Because the Dispatch has a relatively conservative editorial board (it endorsed McCain and Bush in the last two presidential elections), I found both the position and the rhetoric of this editorial notable.  Here are snippets: A highly restrictive law such as Chicago's and Oak Park's would be unnecessary in many other locales, such as small towns, rural areas and anyplace where gun violence is a rare occurrence. But Oak Park sits next door to Chicago's highly urbanized suburbs and neighborhoods and absorbs their spillover criminal activity.  Chicago is engaged in a major campaign to reduce the violence and, in high-crime areas, has installed sophisticated cameras that can detect gunshots, turn rapidly to capture the scene at that site and alert police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 07, 2010 (boomark / email).