DC city hall bureaucrats are shaking in their federal government subsidized boots again.
Today, the Supreme Court is expected to state whether or not they will hear an appeal regarding DC’s long-standing ban of personal firearms. Back in March, a DC appellate court ruled that the 1976 ban on handguns in the District was in violation of the Second Amendment.
Oddly enough, the March suit was brought forth not by a big time gun company or a conservative activist group; but by a federal worker. Dick Anthony Heller, a security guard at a federal building brought forth the lawsuit to the DC appellate court in hopes that he could gain the right to keep his firearm at his home for personal protection.
DC, which has its very own massive federal appropriation to help feed its gluttonous diet for erroneous and failed government programs, hasn’t seemed to have curbed crime after almost three decades of banned firearms in the District. In fact, while the national homicide rate has fallen by 2% since the 76’ ban, DC’s actually rose.
John Lott from the National Review Online writes:
The same folks who can’t operate public schools believe they are also correct in their livid protection
of the gun ban. This case could be a bummer for the DC ruling class.
The USA Today reports:
Obviously, the liberal intelligentsia is about to panic, and it’s not so surprising that national media outlets reported this story onMonday with an alarmist tones in the writing.
It’s also interesting to predict if the 2nd Amendment will become a reasonably important issue in 2008. I doubt voters or candidates will make an issue out of it unless another school shooting or mass murder shocks the nation. However, I can’t wait to see the laughable photo-ops as primped politicians awkwardly hold guns as if they were dirty-diapered babies to woo conservative voters.
Hopefully, the SC will hear this case and bring a little New Hampshire know-how to the inner beltway. During my time working in the District after college, people were sometimes in awe that I came from a state where you can carry a gun in public simply by paying $10 and filling out a short form at your local police department.
Yes, not only did I come from a land where men can protect themselves and their families, but also a place where arena-sized discount liquor outlets flank each side of Interstate 95 on the border, there’s no state income tax, and up until a few years ago, my father did yard work in overalls with no shirt on. Thank God I grew up in a quiet dead-end neighborhood.