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Despite the fact that corporations have never been subjected to systematic opression like women and minorities... today corporations have nearly the same rights as individuals... a considerable share of the Constitution's most fundamental protections.

— Adam Winkler We the Corporations (2018)

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The Founding Fathers instituted gun laws so intrusive that, were they running for office today, the NRA would not endorse them.

In the 1920s and ’30s, the NRA was at the forefront of legislative efforts to enact gun control.

For most of American history, the court has been decidedly favorable to business, regardless of whether the majority of justices was liberal or conservative.

We the Corporations (2018)

[T]he Citizens United and Hobby Lobby cases are just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

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Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communities and Eastern cities of the time, but those without restrictions tended to have worse violence. “I've never seen any rhetoric from that time period saying that the only thing that's going to reduce violence is more people with guns,” says Winkler. “It seems to be much more of a 20th-century attitude than one associated with the Wild West.”

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