“Guns Save Lives.”
Those words, set against the backdrop of a red heart, are the headline of a controversial Phoenix bus-stop advertisement at the center of a three-year legal battle between city officials and civil-liberties advocates.
The fight started in 2010 when city officials removed 50 “Guns Save Lives” ads from its bus stops.
Phoenix told the man behind the ad, gun-rights activist Alan Korwin, that its message was political and violated the city’s policy against non-commercial advertising on buses and transit stops.
Opponents of the ad’s removal say the case, which attorneys will argue in the Arizona Court of Appeals starting Tuesday, could have broad implications for free-speech rights in Arizona and stop the city from arbitrarily censoring public-transit ads.
At issue is how Arizona’s Constitution applies to the regulation of speech on government property.
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