"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Amendment 5 would declare the right to keep and bear arms 'unalienable' and subject to laws restricting gun rights to 'strict scrutiny.'” Recognition of the right of self-defense scares the St. Louis police chief, who “fears prosecutors would be less likely to take a case involving criminal gun possession and juries would be less likely to convict.” This would make him seem indifferent to the fate the mom in the next article might have suffered had her son not used a gun to defend her.
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