Supreme Court gets it right, shoots D.C. gun ban
About the Author: Born in Boston, I lived and worked in the D.C. area for a time, but have spent most of my life in Tennessee, where I graduated from the University of Tennessee. My political philosophy could best be described as eclectic, though mostly right of center. Read more from this authorIn a remarkable nod to the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been getting stranger and stranger, overturned the District of Columbia’s thirty-two year ban on handgun ownership.
From FoxNews we read:
Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that an individual right to bear arms is supported by “the historical narrative” both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.
The Constitution does not permit “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home,” Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington’s requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks.
Liberals are likely to tear their clothes and gnash their teeth for awhile over this one, but the ruling does nothing to weaken laws that are designed to keep handguns out of the hands of felons or other reasonable firearm restrictions (like taking guns into schools). Nevertheless, in a second dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer came out against self-defense, writing, “In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas.”
At least for now, the Second Amendment is safe.
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