The use of homemade guns shows how much the Palestinian Authority's security forces and Palestinian factions have kept control over their large number of weapons.
It all comes down to the question of how reasonable a person is in using a gun and how much discretion a jury has in determining whether the use of deadly force was justified.
But hardly a day goes by without a reminder of how out-of-control our gun culture is, how much violence is committed with guns and how tragic it is that the gun lobbies want to prevent the government from even trying to rein things in.
In that original photograph, I wanted to display the gun to show how much I am dedicated to the principles of liberty.
The gun debate underscores how much the two candidates are talking to women this year, 20 years after pollsters and strategists recognized the "gender gap" -- the tendency of men to lean Republican while women lean Democratic.
Though Mr. Romney expressed faith in the federal requirement for background checks before buying a gun, he didn't acknowledge how porous the federal system is — largely by allowing unchecked sales at gun shows — and how much more effective tighter state regulations have been in restricting trafficking in places like California.
In questioning a medical examiner who determined that DNA from Mr. Alvarez and the man who died, Luis Soto, was on the gun found in Mr. Alvarez's hand, Mr. Galluzzo elicited testimony that a second person's touching the gun could affect how much DNA from the other person was on it.
"I realized I did not fully understand politics in America, and how intrinsically the segment of society that cares about gun rights, how deeply they believe that, how much gun rights are wrapped up in their political and cultural identity," he said.
And urban liberals don't understand how much guns matter to rural white men, fumes Dave Mudcat Saundersrs, a Democratic strategist.
It's the sort of hearing at which Senator Coburn wonders if someone "raised in the Bronx" can understand how much guns mean to people in his state, Oklahoma — "They're really different" — and Senator Leahy jumps in to say that Vermonters value their guns, too.
