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Why the Second Amendment may be overstated in the gun debate

Artfully79/iStockThis report is a part of "Rethinking Gun Violence," an ABC News series examining the level of gun violence in the U.S. and what can be done about it. (NEW YORK) In the bitter debate over gun control, battle lines are often drawn around the Second Amendment, with many in favor of gun rights pointing to it as the source of their constitutional authority to bear arms, and some in favor of tighter gun control disagreeing with that interpretation. But if the purpose of the debate is to reduce the tragic human toll of gun violence, the focus on Second Amendment is often misplaced, according to many experts on guns and the Constitution. They say the battle lines that actually matter have been drawn around state legislatures, which are setting the country's landscape on guns through state laws or sometimes, the lack thereof. Joseph Blocher, professor of law and co-director of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke Law School, described the patchwork of state ....

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