Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
Melissa Harris-PerryThe problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.
Melissa Harris-PerryWhile the establishment Republican candidates are busy doing this, attacking each other, and doing everything they can to bring each other down, they seem to be missing the bull`s-eye. They`re missing the targets.
Melissa Harris-PerryPopular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
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