D.C. Lauds Supreme Court Decision to Hear Gun Ban Case
posted 4:39 pm Tue November 20, 2007 - Washington
Fenty calls it the most important court case the District of Columbia has been involved in and possibly the most important decision a city or state has been involved in for decades.
Assistant police chief Alfred Durham says 80 percent homicides in the district this year have been committed with firearms. He says the way the Supreme Court rules in this case is literally a matter of life and death.
Latest Comment on D.C. Lauds Supreme Court Decision to Hear Gun Ban Case
Diplomat
5:04 pm on 11/21/07
The only reason to exclude an entire population from a Constitutional right would be that the population in question is too mentally incompetent to exercise that right in a responsible fashion.
Apparently, the PTB decided that DC residents are too dumb and/or nuts to handle a handgun.
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