Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Guns, Guns, Guns

Today, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving a Washington DC law that bans handguns. The case is historic in that the Court might decide for the first time ever whether the 2nd Amendment confers an individual right to have guns, or whether it was written with the intent to provide some sort of collective right to defend (a "well regulated militia") that may be an antiquated notion in the modern age.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/18/ST2008031802901.html

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