you know, every kid at oxford high school and in that community has now been touched by gun violence, and it s not something that gets solved overnight. there s no quick fix to this. you deal with this for the rest of your life. and it s unfortunate and it s so hard for young people who have their whole lives ahead of them to have to start this journey now. it s absolutely heartbreaking. for me, myself, i d be remiss to say that i m not in a tough spot at the moment with michigan and we had two school shootings in colorado, at aurora central, and at hinckley high school over the last couple of weeks here. this keeps happening with such frequency that there has to be a common sense answer that we can get to to ensure the safety of our kids, just echoing what fred said, if life starts at inception, it doesn t stop after birth. it s something we have to do to protect children not only from the violence and the physical injury, but some of the mental
0 court, is the sense that we want to give the states this power from the conservative standpoint, and that goes against science. so then just forget about science and make up standards as we go along. and steve, to the question of precedent, justice sotomayor talked about or asked the question will the institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception. this is all political. i think it s the right question from justice sotomayor, and one of the things that really came through in the argument today is, yes, there have been bad precedents throughout the course of history, that the justices have overruled. usually, though, in the favor of expanded individual rights. here we have a case where overruling precedent would be to take away rights that the court has recognized. we haven t seen that kind of decision where the country is so evenly divided, where there s so much reliance built into women assuming that they have the right to pursue a pre-viability aborti