Supreme Court Majority Appears To Back Gun Rights

According to this Washington Post article, the United States Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case that tests the constitutionality of a Washington D. C. gun ban passed in 1976. This law's requirements essentially amounted to "a prohibition on the use of firearms for self-defense in the home" according to Senior Circuit Judge Silberman (reference #3). While private legal ownership of handguns in the nation's capitol wasn't technically banned, it was banned for all practical purposes.

During the 1990's Washington D. C. had the dubious honor of being known as "the murder capitol of the United States" with a murder rate of 81 per 100,000.

It has been postulated that Baghdad is statistically safer than Washington D. C. when you take into account :
1) The number of American casaulties in Baghdad since the invasion
2) The amount of time that we have been in Baghdad and compare it to
3) Washington D. C.'s record murder rate of 81 per 100,000 in one year.

This particular statistic was not my idea and math is not my strong suit so I won't make that claim. (Also I am good friends with two philosophy professors would might just cry "Foul" at the logic of such an analogy.) I'm just saying...

Either way, they've been going at this lawsuit for a while now and I'm just hoping that the citizens of our capitol are finally afforded the same right to defend themselves, their property and their loved ones that most of the citizens of the US enjoy.