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Barack Obama: “The Supreme Court ruling did not say that you can't have common-sense gun laws; it just said that this particular case…”

On the recordJune 25, 2008
The Supreme Court ruling did not say that you can't have common-sense gun laws; it just said that this particular case violated a basic principle that people do have a right to bear arms.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Peter Cook of Bloomberg's "Money and Politics

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