If gun laws in fact worked, ...

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.
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