You are talking about giving the executive branch broader authority to create these exclusion zones which could cover broad areas and last for days [during an event ].

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Before you take the data from this study and say 'we should leap out to say this proves we should have national licensing and registration' it would be useful to know one of the things they didn't look at, which was. 'Does licensing and registration also depress gun ownership by law abiding people?

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I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.

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Are the cities that have these restrictive laws ...also cities where you have fewer people able to protect themselves from crime?

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