In McDonald v. Chicago, Supreme Court offers handguns as affirmative action for the poor and oppressed

[Dennis Baron]

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In McDonald v. Chicago, Supreme Court offers handguns as affirmative
action for the poor and oppressed

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that the best way for African
Americans, women, and other oppressed groups in America to improve
their lot is to buy a gun.

In any irony hard to overlook, in the same week that Republicans on
the Senate Judiciary Committee would attack Elena Kagan for her
association with civil rights activist and distinguished Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court's conservative majority
wrapped itself in the civil rights mantle to celebrate the Second
Amendment as a vital resource for the nation's downtrodden and
oppressed.

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