The Constitutional Question of Reciprocity
Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate.
Is it permissible for a state to be "harshly unfair" to a law-abiding resident of another state, to the point of placing said non-resident in jeopardy of losing their freedom over the exercise of a civil right enumerated and guaranteed by the United States Constitution?
David B. Kopel, Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Denver, Colorado, and an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute in Washington DC, in an interview with Caleb Brown, offers his thoughts on the subject.
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