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On the brutal reality of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting and all the others in our country dating back to Columbine and Luke Woodhams rampage at Pearl High School in Mississippi the thoughts and prayers of do-nothing politicians ring particularly hollow and meaningless.

I come at this as a gun owner, a hunter, someone who absolutely will defend my home and family with force, and as one who supports the rule of law and respects the authority of those who wear the badge and stand their posts.

Likewise, I come at this as a father, grandfather, and educator responsible for other peoples children. Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, gun owners and gun opponents, its time to come to the table and find common ground that makes us all safer particularly innocent children.

All of us in this country have let the National Rifle Association and similar groups make us afraid and we as voters have allowed them to hold our political processes hostage. When party primaries are made litmus tests on who can genuflect most to the gun lobby, responsible government and sensible public policy are not the results.

Having safer schools may hit us all in the wallet through higher taxes to pay for the security we say we want. More stringent background checks may slow gun transactions. The current distinctions between handguns, long guns, and assault weapons need to be reconsidered. But our current laws and the enforcement of them or lack thereof arent working.

No, background checks and other deterrent strategies will not categorically stop school shootings. Yes, those measures will annoy and inconvenience law-abiding citizens. But they almost certainly will decrease incidents like Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Pearl, and Columbine.

As a society, we have made it too easy for the evil, the angry, or the mentally ill among us to get and possess guns. They are using those easily acquired guns to kill our children.

Congress and our state legislatures face the challenge of making schools safer from gun violence and those lawmakers must somehow find the political courage to risk alienating the gun lobby.

The gun lobby makes a lot of noise about activist judges limiting freedom and grabbing guns. Most of it is fundraising nonsense that plays on fear, prejudice, and anger.

I had a chance conversation with a sitting Supreme Court justice at an art gallery opening in Jackson, Mississippi on March 31, 2001. Justice Antonin Scalia, the conservative lion of the high court, was appropriately dressed for the occasion except for the knee-high snake boots into which his trousers were neatly tucked.

Scalia was in Mississippi that day for two reasons. First and foremost, the jurist was here to go turkey hunting in Jones County. Second, Scalias time in Mississippi coincided with the day King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia of Spain paid a royal visit to Jacksons Mississippi Arts Pavilion for a private tour of the states The Majesty of Spain exhibit.

In talking with Scalia, it became obvious that he loved both the fine arts and rural Mississippi hunting pleasures with nearly equal passions. After his 2016 death (while he was on a hunting trip in Texas), I reflected on the dichotomy of this learned mans worldview and his surprisingly forthright views on the Second Amendment.

In 2008s District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that gun rights did not inure only to those in a well-regulated militia as anti-gun forces argued but to individuals in their homes which affirmed the pro-gun arguments in the case and overjoyed the NRA. Scalia wrote the majority opinion.

But Scalia also wrote something else in the Heller decision that the NRA didnt applaud: Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

Scalia would also assert the belief that like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited and that it is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

Justice Scalias assertion remains as true today as it was 20 years ago. The Second Amendment is not a blank check.

Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at sidsalter@sidsalter.com.

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Do the rights to bear arms remain if there is an existing well regulated militia? Is a well regulated militia to be formed by those who have the rightto bear arms? Hasnt Congress decided that the National Guard is the militia? Hasnt the security of the United States been repeatedly and successfully defended by the U.S. armed forces? Can the security of a free state, or more importantly its citizens, be ensured by the peoples right to bear arms, or can it also be threatened, compromisedeven violated because of that right?

Shouldnt we be more concerned about how this amendments interpretation has changed our society for the worse? How it has led to increased violence, fears of public exposure, changed schools settings from places of safe learning to increasingly militarized fortresses.

This amendment has been addressed by the Supreme Court in 1876, 1886, 1939 and 2008, when the current ruling passed by a 5-4 decision. I think it time for the Supreme Court to revisit the issue.

Frank Meneghini

Peterborough

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Revisiting the Second Amendment - Monadnock Ledger Transcript

Former President Donald Trump repeated his support for a constitutional right to bear arms before his scheduled speech Friday at a National Rifle Association (NRA) event. Meanwhile, the Senate's top Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has signaled his openness to "a bipartisan solution that's directly related to the facts" in response to Tuesday's mass school shooting in Texas.

Calling into Sebastian Gorka's America First radio show on Thursday, Trump said the Second Amendment, which gun rights advocates say protects gun ownership, is crucial to Americans' safety and well-being.

"But on Friday night, I'll be in Houston and we'll be making a speech and discussing a lot of the things which you would agree to and, you know, you have to protect. You have to protect your Second Amendment. You have to give that Second Amendment great protection because without it we would be a very dangerous country, frankly," Trump said.

On Tuesday, 19 children and two teachers were killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The gunman, an 18-year-old dropout named Salvador Ramos, was eventually killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent inside the school. The killings have renewed demands for federal gun control legislation, which has encountered Republican opposition after similar events, such as Connecticut's Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. Twenty children and six adults died in that incident.

On the same day as Trump's remarks, McConnell said he directed Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn to talk to two Democratic senators, Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema and Connecticut's Chris Murphy, as well as "others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that is directly related to the problem" of gun violence, according to CNN.

McConnell added, "I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution."

Following the shooting, Murphy spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday and, in a video that has been viewed more than 2 million times, passionately asked the chamber's members, "What are we doing?"

He went on to ask his colleagues why they spend so much time and effort becoming senators "if your answer is that as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing."

During his interview with Gorka, who was Trump's deputy adviser on national security issues, the former president noted the timing of his upcoming speech to the NRA. "You know I'm making a speech at the NRA in Houston. It'll be very interesting. It's, you know, an interesting time to be making such a speech, frankly."

Trump also touched on other subjects, such as election integrity; the documentary 2000 Mules, which claims to have evidence of voter fraud in the last presidential race; and Representative Liz Cheney. The Wyoming Republican has been an outspoken critic of the former president and is on the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

"Then, on Saturday night, I'm going to Wyoming to campaign against Liz Cheney, who's absolutely atrocious, the job she's done," Trump said.

Newsweek reached out to McConnell's office and a Trump representative for further comments.

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In this third episode of our coverage on the Uvalde mass shooting, Mustafa Tameez, President and Founder of Outreach Strategists, whos also a former consultant on counter-violent extremism for the US Department of Homeland Security, addresses why some may refer to these types of shootings as homegrown terrorism.

And as demand for new gun reform that previously failed to pass Congress are raised again, with some Americans now questioning the Second Amendment, University of Houston law professor Sandra Guerra Thompson explains if its possible that were about to see another significant spike in support after what happened in Uvalde.

Also, we have an update from Bri Kirkham, Digital Editor for Texas Public Radio, who shares what the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety recently addressed to the media in Uvalde.

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Is the Second Amendment too vague? Most Americans now want stricter gun laws and universal background checks. - Houston Public Media

By Pat Bullard

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he Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights passed by Congress in 1791. I fail to see how it grants one individual the right to destroy another individuals right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and to arm oneself with weapons designed for war for a mass killing of the enemy.

In 1994, the U.S. Congress banned assault weapons and mass shootings dropped by 43%. When the GOP-controlled Congress in 2004 let the ban expire, mass shootings have shot up by 239%. Approximately 50,000 are shot or wounded by guns each year in the U.S. Gun violence is by far highest in the U.S. than any other civilized nation. As Leonard Pitts said in his column (May 30), it only happens here.

Each child murdered and mutilated had a heartbeat until they were murdered. And for how many years have children been traumatized by these mass murders in their schools, and being trained how to deal with an active shooter in their school? I was shocked to learn my kindergartner great-grandchild five years ago had to undergo frequent drills to deal with a possible active shooter at her school.

We are not interested in taking away your personal gun for hunting or home protection, if you are licensed, responsible and keep them under lock and key.But we are way beyond grief having people massacred and mutilated by idiots who should not be in possession of such weapons, especially weapons of destruction designed for the battlefield and not an individuals use. And an 18-year-old being able to buy a weapon of mass destruction? There were children murdered in Texas last week whose faces were so mutilated by an assault weapon that DNA from their parents had to be used to identify them.

And I have read of at least eight mass shootings in the U.S. since then, although not as horrendous, mass shootings. Only in the U.S.

The right to bear arms should not supersede the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the rest of us.Yes, it is a political issue as well and we must vote against any and all who love their guns more than they love our children.

For those who argue, but we do love our children, actions speak louder than words. Obstructionist GOP are beholden to NRA money and gun manufacturers and have refused to act on gun safety issues put forward by Democrats for the years since 2004.

Pat Bullard lives in China Grove.

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00:30 Gun Grab (20 minutes)

Joe Biden wants a ban on handguns. During off-the-cuff comments yesterday, Biden said that theres simply no basis in terms of self-protection to have a 9-mm handgun. The irony is that when Biden made that comment, he was surrounded by likely dozens of Secret Service agents armed with 9-mm handguns to protect him. Bidens provocative comments are designed to divide America and undermine the U.S. Constitution. Americas founders intended the Second Amendment to be a deterrent against tyrannical government. In America Under Attack, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes: The Second Amendment in the U.S. protects the peoples right to bear arms, but for what? The main point was to protect the citizens from government tyranny.

21:30 Stacey Abramss Stooges in Georgia (7 minutes)

Voter turnout in the recent Republican primary in Georgia was much higher than usual. In Georgia, Democrats and Republican voters can vote in primaries. This year, Stacey Abrams, the Democrat, ran uncontestedso there was no Democratic primary. But that didnt stop Democrats from turning out in droves to vote! Many voted in the Republican primary in order to help Republicans who continue to cover up the 2020 election steal.

29:00 Voting Machines Are Vulnerable (6 minutes)

The Washington Post received advance details about a soon-coming report on Dominion voting machines. According to the Post, the report found nine flaws affecting versions of the machine called the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X. But these many flaws were in no way exploited during the 2020 presidential electionso says Homeland Securitys Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Manhattan: After the massacre in a Texas elementary school on the heels of a massacre in a Buffalo supermarket, I thought I may have to pull up stakes and leave this country. Then I thought about it again and realized I dont have to leave, I just have to support the end of the great experiment known as the United States of America.

I want to live in a land that respects the right of women to have autonomy over their own lives and bodies and to have the right to make medical decisions without government interference unless it impacts the health and well-being of fellow citizens. I want to live in a land that follows the same successes as almost all other industrialized nations when it comes to gun violence by enacting strong laws that make it nearly impossible for private citizens to own weapons whose only function is to kill as many living beings as possible. I want to live in a land where truth is truth and alternate facts are not facts at all, but lies. I want to live in a land where common sense prevails rather than the loudest voice. I want to live in a land where citizens do not ignore science even when it leads to their own demise.

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Its time to divide this country into two lands governed separately. Id be happy to live in the United States of Blue and tackle the issues those states have rather than try to compromise with those whose ideology is the polar opposite of mine. Elizabeth Winters

Somerset, N.J.: In the past week, with all the bad news and divisiveness in the United States, former President Donald Trump said our country is going to hell. What he didnt say was that so much of it was because of himself. Instead of fading away and being a bad memory, he and his diminishing following continue to divide the country and try to wreck any progress in our society. When Congress passed the much-needed infrastructure bill with great input from President Biden, Trump said the Republican congresspeople were stupid because it made the Democrats look good. Thats how this egomaniac thinks. He could care less about the betterment of our country. Fortunately, more and more people realize this and he will probably be a non-factor by 2024. Arthur Bressler

Yonkers: This school shooting comes at a perfect time for Democrats. Now they can get the countrys focus off of President Bidens failed handling of gas prices, food prices and baby formula shortages. Ted Bernhardi

Brooklyn: To Voicer Patricia N. Ravel: What you say might work in a perfect world. Not in todays times. To the gun shop owners, money trumps people any day. Imagine these shop owners losing money heaven forbid. Josie Oliveri

Flushing: In Leonard Greenes column (Shame on the NRA, enough is enough, May 29) he speaks about the possibility that if the Founders had known about 30-40 round magazines and mass shootings, they might have thought twice about the Second Amendment. Maybe the Founders were smarter than we realize. The Second Amendment speaks about the right to bear arms, but it does not say all or any type of arms, meaning that some limits on the type of arms can be implied. The conservatives always talk about being textual and not creating rights that the Constitution does not actually include. There is no mention in the Constitution of assault weapons or high-capacity magazines. Isnt it logical to assume that the right to own assault weapons does not exist? Stu Brustein

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Staten Island: Mayor Adams, it is not about how the NYPD would handle a shooting incident. Children were murdered because of the lack of action by police officers. You and other mayors will brainstorm to try and solve the gun violence problem. My opinion is that this violence will never be solved. My biggest query is why are answers always looked for after the tragedy? Why were answers not found before the spike in the violence and before the rise in school shootings? There were Columbine and other school shootings and there were no answers. Is it truly possible to stop this? Jeffrey Van Pelt

Smithtown, L.I.: The New York City motto should be Land of the Free and Home of the Very Brave. Allen Brown

Old Bethpage, L.I.: Re Adams wings clipped on school control (June 1): Once again, there is no mention of teachers being part of the governing power of the educational system. This bill says it will prevent appointees from stepping out of line. Really? What does that mean exactly? Why appoint them in the first place? Adams says he is a graduate of city schools. So what!? Is that his claim to fame for deciding policy? I too am a graduate but I dont have the expertise to govern, nor does he. There is an effort to decrease the number of children in a classroom wonderful idea, but where are the empty rooms to accommodate them? There arent any. I really hope that the new appointees know what they are doing for the students and are not being political pawns. Adrienne Horowitz

New Rochelle: To Voicer Betty E. Weisblum: Thank you for your compassionate response to my recent letter. Your comments represent the views of many in our nation and I understand your concerns and your viewpoints. Let me tell you that I am not positing a theocracy. My views are a need for morals and values found in Jesus as the basis for governance and community life. Sadly, it is clear that these have not been followed by leaders, followers or citizens of any nation to the degree that would acerbate and heal many of the problems we face today. Your examples are evidence of this failure as well as the continuing search of many people to exist safely today. Jesus was a rabbinical Jew who formed a new path. We must work together and be God willing surprised by hope. Warren D. Gross

Itasca, Ill.: A friend of mine once wondered if Americas ill-fated commitment in Vietnam led to the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union and kept us out of a deadlier war later. Would several hundred thousand lives saved worldwide be worth the approximately 58,000 American soldiers lost in Vietnam? Id hate to make that argument before a family who lost a loved one in Vietnam, or a veteran still carrying scars from that conflict. Gen. Colin Powell said, No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. America learned that the hard way in the jungles of Vietnam, as did Russia in Afghanistan. Vietnam moments arent unique to the United States, we just land on our feet better. Whatever happens in Ukraine will be messy, but Im guessing most global observers would rather be America than Russia right now. Jim Newton

Hewitt, N.J.: I understand that Billy-Boy de Blasio plans to run for Congress. Who is going to vote for him? Perhaps his wife and kids! Elaine Young

Bronx: I am so tired of Voicers equating a womans right to choose with vaccine requirements. They feel that my body, my choice should apply equally to both situations. What they dont seem to understand is that you cant stand next to or breathe on someone and make them pregnant, whereas you can spread COVID-19, thereby overtaxing our hospital system by not getting vaccinated. One is a public health issue where the good of the many outweighs the desire of the individual. But we are a selfish society and many dont see it that way at all. Remember that with freedom comes responsibility. Dr. Anthony Fauci is right: If polio had struck in todays environment, we would never be able to eradicate it. Carol Webb

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Re: Dont like the Second Amendment, change the Constitution by Bob Foley, column, May 27:

Bob Foley, and The Sun Chronicle, too, displayed an amazing sense of poor timing. Obviously, Foley has strong feelings about the Second Amendment; I believe it is an important amendment, too, so long as those who own guns are responsible hunters, sportsmen, and/or those who want to protect their homes.

Foley should have, however, waited to write his piece until the 19 young children and two teachers were buried and properly mourned.

I do not want guns taken away from responsible owners; I do want it to be more difficult to gain access to guns, especially assault weapons. The boy who shot the children and teachers should not have had easy access to two AR-15s or 300+ rounds of ammunition. Our Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment when weapons were muzzle loaders not when assault weapons could kill 21 in a matter of minutes, if not seconds.

While I agree with Foley that two of the missions of the NRA are to preserve the Second Amendment and promote gun safety rules, it is also one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington that fights gun legislation it feels may be restrictive.

I grew up and worked in Washington, D.C., and had two friends who worked for the NRA in the 1970s and 80s; they would tell you the NRA is not a big spender as far as funding members of Congress; it uses its money strategically to buy attack ads against candidates who support gun control laws. The NRA also uses its grading system to let its base know which members of Congress are pro-guns and those who are not. Bottom line: the NRA is very effective in blocking gun laws, even ones that a vast majority of our country support, such as comprehensive background checks.

I was an elementary school administrator during the time of Sandy Hook and the fear amongst students and parents was palpable for weeks, so this column should have been saved for later.

Thomas Fuller

Mansfield

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Pound tables to demand change

Finally, the answer from Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors: Its not silence and prayers, its noise. Kerr pounded the table. I suggest we follow his lead.

What if instead of moments of silence, we have many moments of noise when the next, and there will be a next, mass shooting happens? Imagine a group of people whether at a sporting event or in a legislative chamber or at a place of worship all at once letting out a big scream to express their true feelings of sadness.

Maybe that would get someones attention. There is a saying. If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what you always got. Gun violence and silence are, sadly, the perfect example of that vicious circle. We should all be using our loud voices and pounding tables, demanding change, not continuing the silence.

Perri Brackett, Lewisville

I cried as I watched the news of the Uvalde school shooting. By the grace of God, my 10-year-old grandson was not there and is safe. But God cannot guarantee his future safety, only our politicians can.

Gov. Greg Abbott talked about how special children are but made no suggestions on how to protect them from future shootings. It would take only two simple laws to make a difference: universal background checks with an age minimum of 21, same as the drinking age, and the elimination of military-style semi-automatic guns whose sole purpose is to kill scores of victims quickly effective in wars but with no clear purpose in civilian life.

The argument is that people should have the freedom of choice to own weapons. How is this more important than the choice of the victims to have a safe life? How is it different from the choice of a woman who is managing her reproductive rights?

So what can we do? Vote. Vote for politicians who will protect our right to life from mass murderers. Vote for politicians who will not allow forced deliveries. Vote for our democracy.

Elizabeth C. Knoop, Frisco

The Second Amendment was ratified almost 231 years ago. Do you think anything has changed in our country since 1791? No matter what political affiliation you may have, common sense should take over our elected politicians to change the Second Amendment.

We, the people of the United States, have to hold them accountable to make owning a deadly weapon difficult, at minimum. Age requirements, background checks and a required waiting period should be the standard for any gun ownership.

The killing of our kids and others can be stopped. I just dont understand the lack of effort to change this right to bear arms by our elected officials. After Sept. 11, the entire country and airlines changed their requirements to fly. We learned from Sept. 11 and have avoided another disaster of that magnitude. However, after 231 years and numerous horrific mass shootings, we havent acted to protect our citizens. Its deplorable.

Curt Richmond, Carrollton

As an independent native Texan, I no longer recognize the Republican Party. What happened to separation of church and state? Thomas Jefferson and fellow Virginian James Madison felt that state support for a particular religion or for any religion was improper. They argued that compelling citizens to support through taxation a faith they did not follow violated their natural right to religious liberty, and I agree.

In my profession, Im driven to resolve problems, not create new ones. This party seems to manufacture problems to proliferate hatred, ignore real problems and divide and distract people. In my opinion, this party has become an authoritarian theocracy where citizens are being forced to follow its beliefs including its version of history, gun laws, abortion policies, voting rules, election results (only valid if they win) and many outrageous conspiracy theories.

Evidence is no longer required for this party, because if enough people believe something then it must be true. My hope is that moderate, reasonable Republicans show up to the polls with love and compassion and right these wrongs.

Vincent Pollinzi, Carrollton

It is hard to comprehend how our country got to this point. The U.S. military is flying weapons to Europe for the war in Ukraine. The U.S. military is flying baby formula back to America for our babies. Does anyone recognize the absurdity? One government is fighting off a Russian invasion. Yet our government cant manage baby formula.

Pam Meyercord, North Dallas

In November, voters must decide to cast their ballots for congressional candidates who view fidelity to the rule of law as sacrosanct or for those who consider the oath to protect and defend Constitution as a hollow pledge. The outcome, likely to determine whether or not our constitutional republic survives, brings to mind John Adams pessimistic assertion: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. If, as Adams suggested, our form of government is on a path toward suicide, then we must look to the electorate for intervention.

Should Republicans regain control of Congress, the autocratic-leaning movement within the party will probably spearhead further attempts to silence the opposition by advancing its assault on the cornerstone of democracy voting. If we are to prove Adams wrong, the electorate must once again rise to the occasion, as it did in the 2020 presidential election when it ousted a sitting president for undermining democratic governance.

Jan Larkin, Tampa, Fla.

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"Cross Country" host Lawrence Jones said Americans can no longer rely on the government for their safety in Saturday's monologue and offered his own story where the Second Amendment impacted him.

LAWRENCE JONES: President Biden-appointed Gov. Hochul and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown: Not only do you miss the cause of the problem, you're miles away from offering a solution. That's why people don't trust you. And that's why people trust the Second Amendment. But the Left has long made their contempt for the Second Amendment and their disgust for anyone who supports it very clear.

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I had just witnessed an attempted carjacking, a car crash, and all four suspects were fleeing the scene. I went over to the owner to make sure he was OK. We called the cops, but sadly they didn't show up for about 25 minutes. We respect our men and women in blue, but they are understaffed, and they're discouraged about the job they're being asked to do. The reckless rhetoric from our leaders in the recent years hasn't helped either. The reality of it is we can no longer put our safety in the hands of government. They've let us down. My hero, Frederick Douglass, once said, "A man's right rests in three boxes. The ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box." We have constitutional rights. And we have the right to use them all, period.

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