NORM PATTIS: Perhaps it's time to repeal the Second Amendment
I'll be starting trial this week in Norwich. My client is
accused of murder. The victim was shot to death, point blank,
with a hand gun. The gun has never been found. As near as I can
tell from reading the police reports, a bunch of people were
hanging out in a low-income neighborhood in New London, rolling
dice, getting stoned, and passing a communal bottle of alcohol.
A hooded man walked up, pointed a handgun at the back of man's
head, and pulled the trigger. The shooting seems almost random,
a casual even.  I've seen far too many of these sorts of cases
in recent years. They are far too common. Young men get in a
beef about something, a girl, a slight, drugs, and then, someone
returns with a gun. Shots are fired, and quick death is
delivered courtesy of the Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution. Dis' me and die, sucker - that's the new motto for
patiots.  This right to bear arms, to transform our streets into
killing fields, is ove