Thursday, June 26, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

NRA Filing Suit Against Gun Laws in Obama's Hometown

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, was on Fox News a moment ago and said the NRA will (I'm paraphrasing) take this decision and restore the Second Amendment to all Americans... by filing suit in Chicago against their handgun ban.

Wonder what Barack Obama thinks about that.

UPDATE: Note this line in McCain's reaction to the ruling: "Today’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller makes clear that other municipalities like Chicago that have banned handguns have infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans."

Hint, hint, gun owners. Hint, hint.

ANOTHER UPDATE: I wouldn't have predicted it, but I wonder if yesterday's decision banning the death penalty for rapists of children will actually have a bigger impact on voters' thinking than today's decision, both for gun owners and non-gun owners. If you own a gun, you are at least theoretically comfortable with using deadly force to protect yourself and others. The majority's claim that there is a national "consensus" in opposition to the death penalty for someone who rapes a child, that "evolving standards of decency must embrace and express respect for the dignity" of the rapist, and the death penalty for these monsters is barred by the Constitution, was like a slap in the face.

As a reader of the Corner noted, under this ruling, a person who rapes a child is ineligible for the death penalty, but a father who kills someone who raped his child is eligible. Somehow I don't think that argument will fly with many gun owners.

06/26 11:58 AMShare