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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: Where to Start in Securing Our Schools
Description: Is there something that conservatives and liberals agree on in the aftermath of the massacre in Texas? Let’s begin with a reminder of what Justice Scalia wrote in the 2008 Heller decision: The Justice reiterated that the court did not want to cast doubt on the legality of laws forbidding “felons and the mentally ill” from possessing firearms. So: The right to own a weapon is not absolute, and no serious person believes it is. What, then, should Congress aim to achieve? First, the police should have acted very differently, beginning with the absence...