As Pat reported below, the Supreme Court released its decision today in D.C. v. Heller–the first time since before World War Two that the High Court bothered to say anything about the much-maligned, often misunderstood Second Amendment. SCOTUSblog has a basic summary of the decision. The opinions, written by Associate Justices Antonin Scalia (majority),...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Second Amendment ’
D.C. v. Heller
Who Wants to go Shopping?
Report here: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in the nation’s history, that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the nation’s capital. The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly...
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A Lesson in Unintended Consequences
I believe I once read something by some dead white man, warning about the dangers of the unintended consequences of hasty reform. His idea was that change–especially those changes made in the wake of disorienting, scary events–are often made foolishly, without regard to the complexities of our world and the possibility that the proposed...
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Gunfight at One First Street
Figuratively speaking, at least. The DC gun-ban case (Parker v. District of Columbia) will likely be headed to the Supreme Court, now that the D.C. Court of Appeals denied the District’s horizontal appeal of the case to the full Court (as opposed to the panel of the 3 judges that previously voted 2-1 in...
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