Supreme Court to rule on gun ownership rights

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether the District of Columbia's sweeping ban on handgun ownership violates the Constitution's fundamental right to "keep and bear arms."

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Maybe it will all start in D.C. and they will see it's working, then will proceed to ban gun's everywhere else in the US.

As somone who has spent plenty of time in the District, and has friends in the roughest 'hoods in the City, let me just tell you how absurd this law really is. You cannot walk the streets with a gun, whether it be concealed or open carry, loaded or unloaded. You cannot possess a gun in your vehicle, whether it be cocnealed, or open carry, loaded or unloaded. You cannot even possess a gun within your own residence, property, or person whether it be concealed, or in plain sight, unless that gun is unloaded, AND has a lock on it with the ammunition locked somewhere else.

Real good that does, let someone break into your home so you can club them to death with a .12 Gauge. You might as well jump out your bedroom window and run to a payphone.

D.C. is the Murder Capitol, with a Homicide Rate even higher than Kingston, Jamaica. On any given night I can be on the phone talking to a friend, and hear gunshots rattling off in the background. One of my friends had a guy standing next to her get blasted in broad daylight on his front porch. The violence is no joke, the guns are everywhere, cops corrupt and lazy, and yet who are the individuals/victims not allowed to protect themselves? Law abiding citizens. We have a city where Ambulances can take 30-40 minutes to show up just because the dispatcher is more concerned with whether or not a bleeding victim is drunk in the street, as opposed to dying. One cop witnessed a blind guy get pummeled by a car while tryng to cross a street Downtown. What did he do? He walked over and wrote the guy a Jaywalking ticket, meanwhile the guy died.

The gun Ban has been in effect for over 30 years, and what has occured? The Murder rate skyrocketed and has yet to settle down. Everyone has become a victim if not a murderer, and yet we are still left with debating whether or not the victims will have the chance to become self-defenders. It is a completely rediculous argument, as obvious common sense would point to the fact that allowing lawful gun ownership could do no more harm than the ban itself did in the first place.

The guns are going to flow through the streets regardless of legal ownership. The only citizens being denied the right to defend themselves are those who wish to obey the law. Since when does obeying the law bring about punishment?

[edit on 2-5-2008 by TheAgentNineteen]