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Somers, Patricia; Fry, Jessica; Fong, Carlton J. – Thought & Action, 2017
In 2008, in the case of the "District of Columbia vs. Heller," which involved a district law banning most handguns, the U. S. Supreme Court declared that the Second Amendment protects citizens' rights to self-defense and that the federal government cannot prohibit guns in homes. Two years later, the Court further made clear that the…
Descriptors: Weapons, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law