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Editor's Note

Feb. 1, 2013

Editor's Note

When should laws be passed to protect us against ourselves? Sometimes that question is resolved when enough people realize that a law, as well-intentioned as it may be, is causing more harm than good. That, of course, is exactly what happened in 1933 when the states repealed the constitutional amendment banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

But what makes sense for whiskey does not necessarily apply to, say, AK-47s. Even after what happened in Newtown, Connec...

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