End the D.C. handgun ban
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Tired of being harassed, threatened and mugged, a group of Washington residents filed suit Monday to overturn the District's outright ban on private handgun ownership. Theirs is a constitutional case. Despite the Second Amendment guarantee that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," a legal decision in 1939 interpreted this as only applying to members of a state militia. Mainstream legal thinking, however, is moving away from this ruling, and the chances are reasonable that soon this right will be interpreted correctly to apply to individuals, as well. This editorial is fairly well handled for it's DC audience, but unfortunately propagates a common misunderstanding of the 2nd Amendment case US v Miller in its opening paragraph. |
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