Happiness Is a Warm Gun?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Gun nuts and anti-gun people are all waiting with breathless anticipation to see if the Supreme Court is going to take up the case against D.C.’s gun ban. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled last March that D.C.’s longstanding gun ban was unconstitutional and everyone’s been waiting for the Court to decide whether to take the appeal of that appeal. No one really knows if they’ll rule in favor of a broad interpretation of the whole “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” thing or a more strict one, but I think people sense the irony that many of the same advocates who castigate judges for not being narrow enough in their interpretation of the law seem to like the broader definition in this case. Right? [NY Times]
Gun nuts and anti-gun people are all waiting with breathless anticipation to see if the Supreme Court is going to take up the case against D.C.’s gun ban. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled last March that D.C.’s longstanding gun ban was unconstitutional and everyone’s been waiting for the Court to decide whether to take the appeal of that appeal. No one really knows if they’ll rule in favor of a broad interpretation of the whole “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” thing or a more strict one, but I think people sense the irony that many of the same advocates who castigate judges for not being narrow enough in their interpretation of the law seem to like the broader definition in this case. Right? [NY Times]
