Posted on 06/26/2008 12:45:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Gun-control advocates across the country reacted with shock and outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns today, saying the ruling would threaten gun-control measures in other states.
If there was any doubt that other bans would be in peril, the National Rifle Association quickly put those questions to rest when it announced shortly after the ruling that it would file a flurry of lawsuits challenging restrictions in San Francisco, Chicago and several Chicago suburbs. The law in Washington, which spelled out rules for the storage of weapons and made it extremely difficult for most people in the district to legally possess a handgun, was among the strictest in the nation.
“I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of freedom,” Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the N.R.A., said in a statement.
In its 5-to-4 decision, the court ruled that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to own guns, not just the right of the states to maintain regulated militias. It also said that the District of Columbia’s requirement that lawful weapons be disassembled or limited by trigger locks was unconstitutional because it made them virtually useless.
In Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley, a staunch supporter of gun control, called the decision “frightening” and said he was bracing for a fight with the gun lobby, which has long criticized the city’s ban on the sale and registration of handguns for everyone but police officers and a handful of others. Enacted in 1982, the law was created in response to the murders of two police officers and the assassination attempt on former president Ronald Reagan.
“Does this lead to everyone having a gun in our society?” he said...
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outrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyge!
Let them stew...what are they going to do? Go on a shooting spree?
Three little letters for the “outraged”:
G.F.Y.
Three little letters for the “outraged”:
G.F.Y.
Hey Anahad... STFU!
WOW!
I say the Nightline coverage of the Virginia Citizens’ Defense League picnic last night.
Polite, fair-minded and respectful all around.
I’m faint with the idea that the Good Guys are actually going on the offensive now. My smelling salts, please.
Is the New York Slimes trying to imply that President Reagan supported illegal gun grabbing?
Crook.
So what are they going to do in DC? Shoot each other more often?
LOL, karma is a beautiful thing.
They're going to be bringing this issue back before the Supreme Court again and again, until they get sympathetic majority.
BWAHAHAHA, I LOLed.
They could have their body guards disarm in protest .
And all over the country, the soft “Click” of rifle safeties being re-engaged could be heard, audible even above the caterwauling din of the socialists....
A good day for the Republic...
“Does this lead to everyone having a gun in our society?” he said...
Virginia Tech was a gun free zone.
There was a shooting at Appalachian State University a number of years ago, in which the carnage was much less than Virginia Tech, because some students there had guns and shot the shooter.
Mayor Daley is setting up a straw man argument. Not everyone will now have a gun, but he’s not addressing the fact that law abiding citizens with guns are not a threat to anybody.
Major parts of the west side and south sides of Chicago are vast wastelands due to the gangs there, all of whom are armed and dangerous. They settle all scores at the end of a gun. They have their guns in spite of Mayor Daley’s gun laws.
In nice, touchy-feely, as politically correct language as I can muster (no pun intended) SCREW YOU , GUN GRABBERS!
I do believe that the proper colloquialism is “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
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