Posted on 03/05/2010 12:32:37 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
I am dismayed that the City of Chicago's ban on handguns may be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The second amendment to the Bill of Rights reads as follows: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The amendment talks about a well-regulated militia and thus, it would seem that the right to bear arms is directly related to a militia. In other words, those serving in a militia - or in the present - a branch of the Armed Services - have the right to bear arms. Of course, I cannot prove that my reading of the amendment is correct -- but gun rights supporters cannot prove that the right to bear arms extends to people who are not in the military!
Moreover, gun rights advocates always say that it is not a gun that kills someone, it is a person that does so. That may be, but much of the time, it is a person with a gun! To be sure, some people will always figure out how to get firearms illegally, but it stands to reason that fewer guns means fewer gun deaths.
This is what Police Superintendent Jody Weis said in regard to the ruling striking down a Washington, D.C. handgun ban: "From a law enforcement perspective, this will no doubt make a police officer's job more challenging than it already is, particularly since a firearm is used in 75 percent of all murders committed in the city of Chicago."
I can only speak for myself, but I would feel a lot less safe if the Chicago handgun ban is overturned. I suspect crime rates after the ban is lifted will prove me right!
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Somebody didn’t pay attention to the Heller decision’s endorsing an INDIVIDUAL right to own firearms.
Sorry cop chief bubba. You lose.
Seriously true. We have heard the “wild west” slaughter argument so many times since Florida went to “shall issue” that it is now a running joke.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
yeah, just “f’in’ retarded”, to put in the Chicago dialect...
“I can only speak for myself, but I would feel a lot less safe if the Chicago handgun ban is overturned. I suspect crime rates after the ban is lifted will prove me right!”
Proven wrong in states with CCW and even Washington DC’s crime rates are going down now. Such hysterical nonsense. The tide has turned against the type of thinking so hard, it’s making the liberals’ heads spin.
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