 | Washington. (See Freedman,
Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms
, pp. 2829.)
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| 7. Alabama constitution, Article I, Section 26.
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| 8. Arizona constitution, Article II, Section 26.
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| 9. States subscribing to the collective right theory are Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming. (See Freedman,
Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms
, pp. 2930.)
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| 10. Ohio constitution, Article I, Section 4.
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| 11. Tennessee constitution, Article I, Section 26.
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| 12. The arguments against handguns need no reiteration here. In a speech to an annual meeting of the American Bar Association in August 1988, former justice Lewis Powell of the United States Supreme Court clarified the danger posed by possession of handguns. He said that the FBI reported 20,613 murders in 1986, 60 percent of which were committed with firearms. In England and Wales, by contrast, where firearms are strictly regulated, there were only 662 homicides in 1986, of which only 8 percent were committed with firearms.
American Bar Association Journal
(October 1, 1988), p. 30.
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| 13. Edward F. Feighan, "A Way to Control Handguns,"
New York Times
(April 15, 1987), p. A27.
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| 14. Jean Bethke Elshtain,
Women and War
(New York: Basic Books, 1987), pp. 4950.
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| 15. Elshtain,
Women and War
, p. 53.
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| 16. Plato,
Republic
8.555D (tr. Cornford).
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| 17. Plato,
Republic
8.557AB (tr. Comford).
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