Crush Liberalism

Supreme Court will decide on DC handgun ban

The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear the case of whether or not D.C.’s ban on possession of handguns is constitutional.  The U.S. Court Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the ban was unconstitutional (in violation of the Second Amendment), so D.C. appealed.

Here are a couple of predictions:

1.  The Court will reverse the Court of Appeals’ ruling, 5-4.  All four liberals, plus Kennedy, will side with D.C.  The liberal argument will be that the Second Amendment is not an individual right (despite the annoying fact that every single one of the remaining Bill of Rights mysteriously is).  Kennedy’s “moderate” argument will be one of the following:

• if there were a total ban on guns (i.e. hunting rifles), then the ban would be unconstitutional, but since there isn’t such a complete ban, there’s no problem with the current ban.
• the Second Amendment addresses state militias, and since D.C. is not a state, then the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to D.C.  Don’t laugh, since this “D.C. isn’t a state” argument is used a lot (see no representation in Congress).

2.  The Court will uphold the Court of Appeals’ ruling, 5-4.  All four liberals will dissent, and Kennedy will say that gun control is fine and dandy, but not gun control as broad as D.C.’s gun ban.

One side note: D.C. said the purpose of the handgun ban is because “handguns have no legitimate use in the purely urban environment of the District of Columbia.”  Are they saying that hunting rifles do have a legit use in the urban D.C.?  “Excuse me, Senator, but I see a 12-point buck crossing Pennsylvania Avenue.  Could you hand me my .30-06?”  You D.C. morons are gonna have to do better than that.

November 21, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | gun rights