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To me, it looks like the problem with Mr. Bills is not that he's evasive or that he speaks in platitudes and cliches, so much as that he speaks (and evidently thinks) in complete gibberish. He's a teacher? How can he follow a curriculum when most of the time he can't follow a sentence through all the way from subject to predicate?
I could (reluctantly) support the legislation (amendment, whatever) that Cornish proposes, if and only if it were coupled to another law protecting the unarmed. Since a person who carries a gun in public is presumably willing to use it to deadly effect, if and when her or she kills someone who is unarmed and cannot be clearly shown to have posed a deadly threat (not merely the threat of a fight), the shooter should by law be automatically considered guilty of premeditated murder and...
Not so Swift! My phrase "automatically considered guilty of" should have been more clearly stated as "automatically arrested for". That IS what due process provides for: upon presentation of probable violation of the law, an orderly sequence of arrest and speedy trial. And the "right to bear arms" does not mean the right to shoot first and ask questions later, nor the right use a firearm for an unlawful purpose, nor to be completely free to use a firearm without regard for consequences.