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 at a news conference. “If they think that’s the answer, then they’re greatly mistaken. Then, why don’t we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West? You have a gun and I have a gun and we’ll settle in the streets.
Hmm…someone please show me a place where guns are readily available to every law abiding citizen that has a high crime rate? Show me a law on the books about gun control that WASN’T a knee jerk reaction?
Even Chicago’s law was a knee jerk reaction:
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.
The simple fact is, if you allow citizens to arm themselves, you have lesser crime rates and dead criminals who try anything funny.
We all remember when Florida enacted the “personal castle doctrine” law a few years ago that said you no longer have the requirement to flee if you’re being threatened. Everyone said it was going to turn Florida into the “Wild West” with shootouts that would kill children. Guess what?
It didn’t happen.
Every, single, time a gun law is passed that gives law abiding citizens more abilities about how they exercise their Second Amendment rights, Gun Control idiots always proclaim that there will be more shootings, more dead children, and little old ladies living in their homes with the doors locked out of fear.
And guess what?
It never happens that way. It’s the same old tired argument that’s never true. I’m surprised that no one else has called these people out on their line of bullshit.
I mean, how DARE people excercise rights that are GUARANTEED in the Constitution. Gun Control people aren’t even smart enough to see the hypocritical nature of them using their First Amendment rights to try to hinder other people’s Second Amendment rights.
Travis
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