[Travis McGee]

Walton ruled that the Second Amendment is not a broad-based right of gun ownership. "The Second Amendment does not confer an individual a right to possess firearms. Rather, the Amendment's objective is to ensure the vitality of state militias," Walton wrote.

There it is, in black and white.

[Dead Corpse]

Now we have two lower courts advocating the collective Right theory, and another espousing an individual Right along with the US Attourney General.

Is anyone optomistic about the USSC hearing this one and deciding in our favor? And I just don't mean the current make-up of the Bench. I mean AT ALL?

[Noumenon]

Hardly a surprise for those of us who've paying atention. We'll this and many other questiosn over the course of the next American Civil War. Even a casual look at the level of vicious, irrational hate pouring out of the Left - which ratchets up, day by day - suggests that 2004 may be the year it starts.

BTW, which ZZ Top album is that photo from? 'Sharp Shooting Man'?

[Mulder]

There it is, in black and white.

And on the other side is the Bill of Rights, also in black in white.

The train wreck is not far off.