Unanimous DC Gun Decision

Back in 1950, these DC-area women captured four night-marauding men who had been terrorizing their neighborhood for three weeks.


My old friend Gary Imhoff writes about the Heller gun decision in DC Watch, his on-line muck-raking newsletter about the antics of local Washington, D.C. politicians:

"... [T]the vote was five to four, but the Court was unanimous on one point: the linchpin of the District’s case was wrong. All nine justices held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, not a right of states to raise militias. The Scalia majority opinion took that position, of course, but the four dissenters agreed, in the very first paragraph of the Stevens dissent, that, “The question presented by this case is not whether the Second Amendment protects a ‘collective right’ or an ‘individual right.’ Surely it protects a right that can be enforced by individuals.” The Stevens dissent then goes on to argue that individual right into incoherence and irrelevance, so that it’s impossible to see what individual right the dissenting justices think the Bill of Rights protects, but the concession still stands."

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