Thursday, June 26, 2008

Gun Rights Victory




By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms.

The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.

The court's historic awakening on the meaning of the Second Amendment brought a curiously mixed response, muted in some unexpected places. The reaction broke less along party lines than along the divide between cities wracked with gun violence and rural areas where gun ownership is embedded in daily life. Democrats have all but abandoned their long push for stricter gun laws at the national level after deciding it's a losing issue for them.

Republicans welcomed what they called a powerful precedent.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, straddling both sides of the issue, said merely that the court did not find an unfettered right to bear arms and that the ruling "will provide much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country."


What an awesome in favor of the Constitution and one of our most cherished rights as Americans. Liberals are seething. Good.

Obama is a moral coward on this and every other issue on which he opines.



Charlton Heston must be smiling from heaven







4 comments:

Anonymous said...

All the Liberals I know are happy about the legalization of hand guns. We realize that like Mugabe the Bush administration will not leave easily. Now when there is a call to arms we will be ready.

Othelmo da Silva said...

LOL! Liberals with handguns. Right. Nothing to worry about there.

Bush and Mugabe? Wow! Your Bush Derangement Syndrome has reached the terminal stage db.

Anonymous said...

I am willing to say I could out shoot you any day. Care to redo the Burr Hamilton duel? I was a NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Champion.

Othelmo da Silva said...

Outshoot me? A duel? It sounds like a threat to me, bd. I have already reported the other liberal Gary Schultz to the police. Do I need to do the same with you?