For What It's Worth

In my opinion, for what it's worth ...

Liberals have been claiming for generations that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did not mean that every citizen had the right to own a handgun.

Now the Supreme Court has decided that every citizen does indeed have the right to a gun. This decision may have very little impact on the lives of ordinary Americans who have been arming themselves to the teeth even without the approval of the "Nine Old Men."

It's impact will be on the society as a whole, because a chance has been missed to introduce a little 21st Century sanity into a 18th Century concept of right. We can also, I hope, face a new round of government restrictions on guns.

While I haven't read the majority decision about guns, and I would like to do that when I have the time, I am truly hoping that the Court hasn't propounded, even in dicta, that this right is unregulated. If the Court has determined that the expression in the Second Amendment which says "a well regulated militia" now applies to every citizen, then I say---

Let's get on with the "well-regulated" part. We're way ahead on the right to bear arms and way, way behind on the regulations.
-Bud

Meanwhile,in Bang-Bang News:


An off duty cop was shot down in Chicago. CLICK

A Virginia teen-ager was shot in the belly by a bicyclist. CLICK

A Hollywood man was shot in the chest for telling teens not to paint grafitti on his garage. CLICK

In Boca Raton Fla, A 17-yr old boy was shot dead while watching TV at a friend's house by someone passing by: CLICK

the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reports that between 1999 and 2005, homicide involving firearms increased 31 percent among black men ages 25 to 44 and 12 percent among white men 25 to 44 years of age.CLICK

And, The Centers for Disease Control report our 17 year old are dying at a remarkable rate, from gunshot: CLICK



And, murder is the #2 cause of death among 15-24 year-olds. Suicide (often with guns) is the #3 cause of death. CLICK