Today the Supreme Court ruled to strike down as unconstitutional, a D.C. handgun ban. Now of course, we all know why there's a handgun ban in the capitol. Because that's where all our elected officials live and work and the fewer guns there are in the hands of the un-skilled or unstable, the lower the odds are that our government leaders will be assassinated, threatened or otherwise put in harm's way. It's been working in everyone's favor for about 40 years.

This is the first time ever the ever-so-increasingly-ultra-conservative high court has ruled on the interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

Which reads:

"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."


In a split 5-4 decision, the supreme court, led by Bush appointees, somehow concluded that the right to buy and keep weapons has nothing to do with a "regulated militia" in effect, disregarding the first whole sentence of the amendment. Therefore striking down a 40 year old law preventing people from carrying handguns in D.C. (You could always own rifles and shotguns in your home, but no less-than-savory-types could bust out a piece on the street and blow away a civilian leader.) 40 years of precedent. Out the window.

Opponents of the decision say this opens the door to allowing convicted criminals and mentally ill people to buy guns now. EVERYWHERE. Because the 'Justices' said the constitution "doesn't explicitly say 'individuals' cannot buy guns."

It should also be noted that it likewise doesn't say anywhere in the constitution that "insane criminals" can't buy guns either...

We had created modern laws to prevent that. Sorta how we created a law saying that you can't have a handgun in the capitol. Which is now gone because it's not "explicitly" written in the constitution. So you know what's next! Some convicted criminal is gonna sue saying the constitution doesn't "explicitly say he cannot own a gun."

I'm sure the framers of the constitution never intended their document to be used as a blank check for any one group's ideology. To allow people to do horrible things and say, "well, it didn't exactly say I COULDN'T do this particular horrible thing..."


We just set a bad precedent. And I personally think they're wrong because I CAN READ the first 4 words of the 2nd amendment. But the NRA and Dick Cheney are STOKED today.