Heller Will Win in June; How Big?

Leibowiz's Canticle ^ | March 18, 2008 | Leibowitz

[Bob Leibowitz]

Dick Heller is the Federal security guard who lives and works in the District of Columbia. He's the named original plaintiff in the most significant constitutional case to reach the Supreme Court in several decades and the most significant Second Amendment case since the signing.

After 90 minutes spent watching lawyers and justices parsing facts, laws and the Constitution, when Mr. Heller was asked by a reporter after the hearing why he took his case all the way to SCOTUS he had an answer, which I'll closely paraphrase:

I'm a federal guard. I carry a gun at work to protect the politicians. When I go home, though, they've decided that my life is not worth as much. They've decided I can't use a gun to defend myself at home.

It was apparent from the questions that most of the Justices had read most or all of the briefs and attachments, by my count nearly 2,000 pages altogether. The questions seemed more focused on expanding fissures than on climbing new ground.

[Bob Leibowitz]

The best back and forth was this:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What is -- what is reasonable about a total ban on possession?

MR. DELLINGER: What is reasonable about a total ban on possession is that it's a ban only an the possession of one kind of weapon, of handguns, that's been considered especially -- especially dangerous. The

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: So if you have a law that prohibits the possession of books, it's all right if you allow the possession of newspapers?

Heller Will Win in June. How Big?

[oneolcop]

If I knew how to use a bigger font I would say VERY BIG!