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Repealing the Second Amendment Would Make Us 'Better Than This'

Norm Stamper | Posted 02.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Gun Violence, Second Amendment, Mass Murder, Gun Culture, President Obama, Right to Bear Arms, Carnage, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Breaking Rank, Connecticut, Gun Control, Alcohol Prohibition, Senator Barry Goldwater, Newtown, Connecticut School Shooting, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Video, Politics News
Norm Stamper

The Second Amendment -- elevated to a state of holiness, its problematic comma debated for decades and "resolved," for the moment, by the Supreme Court -- is a relic. It made sense when it was written. It does not make sense now.

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Maddow Talks Parallels Between Booze And Pot Prohibition

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 11.15.2012 | Denver
Read More: Video, Amendment 64, Denver News, Drug War, Alcohol Prohibition, Marijuana, War on Marijuana, Smoking Pot, 420, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Recreational Marijuana, Denver Colorado, Colorado Marijuana, Colorado, Rachel Maddow Show, Denver News

Leave it to Rachel Maddow to provide one of the most well-thought-out segments on the historic passage of ballot measures in Colorado and Washington t...

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Alcohol Prohibition Not Helping Native Americans Deal With Harms of Alcohol

Tony Newman | Posted 07.08.2012 | Crime
Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Prohibtion, Alcohol Prohibition, Drug War, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Alcoholism, New York Times, Nicolas Kristof, War on Drugs, Crime News
Tony Newman

As terrible as alcohol and other drugs are for some people, prohibition is not the answer. It didn't work in the United States in the 1920s and it is not working for the Sioux people today.

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