Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Gun Control Laws
Apparently, this issue has never been reviewed/ruled on by the Supreme Court.
Somehow, that surprises me. Perhaps it's been deemed too hot to handle...
Somehow, that surprises me. Perhaps it's been deemed too hot to handle...
At his USAToday.com blog, Jonathan Turley discusses the issue:
"This term, the Supreme Court may finally take up the Voldemort Amendment, the part of the Bill of Rights that shall not be named by liberals. For more than 200 years, progressives and polite people have avoided acknowledging that following the rights of free speech, free exercise of religion and free assembly, there is 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms.' Of course, the very idea of finding a new individual right after more than two centuries is like discovering an eighth continent in constitutional law, but it is hardly the cause of celebration among civil liberties groups.
Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda. Yet, two related cases could now force liberals into a crisis of conscience. The Supreme Court is expected to accept review of District of Columbia v. Heller and Parker v. District of Columbia, involving constitutional challenges to the gun-control laws in Washington."
