District of Columbia vs Heller
For those not following the case, here is a summary from wikipedia.
The stepping stone to the case was a security guard who filed for permission with DC to keep a firearm at home for the purposes of protection. The denial of and subsequent ruling by the DC district court is the impetus to the current Supreme Court review.
On March 18th the Supreme Court heard oral arguments. If you're at all interested in this case I suggest listening to the audio and/or reading the transcript here.
Here's where I make an ideological argument, but honestly, I can't be bothered. It usually just devolves into anecdotes and doctored numbers that purposely ignore all the motivations for violence. In that frame of mind, I'll just post some anecdotes from some interesting sources, that conveniently support my own view.
District of Columbia v. Heller, No. 07-290, is a case pending before the Supreme Court of the United States. It is an appeal from Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007), a decision in which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit became the first federal appeals court in the United States to rule that a firearm ban was an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the second to expressly interpret the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right to possess firearms for private use.
The stepping stone to the case was a security guard who filed for permission with DC to keep a firearm at home for the purposes of protection. The denial of and subsequent ruling by the DC district court is the impetus to the current Supreme Court review.
On March 18th the Supreme Court heard oral arguments. If you're at all interested in this case I suggest listening to the audio and/or reading the transcript here.
Here's where I make an ideological argument, but honestly, I can't be bothered. It usually just devolves into anecdotes and doctored numbers that purposely ignore all the motivations for violence. In that frame of mind, I'll just post some anecdotes from some interesting sources, that conveniently support my own view.
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