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...advocates now believe they have set off a ticking time bomb that will prevent the Democrats from avoiding the gun question in the 2008 presidential election. On March 9, in a case called Parker v. District of Columbia, the federal appeals court in Washington struck down the city's ban on private handgun possession at home, one of the most extreme gun-control laws in the country ever since it was passed in 1976. Only Chicago and a few other Illinois communities have similarly sweeping handgun bans on the books; no state has followed Washington's lead. Gun-rights advocates...
...primaries, moderate Democrats elected to Congress last November from formerly Republican districts often proclaimed their support for gun owners' rights. And even after the shootings at Blacksburg, it's not obvious that the new Democratic Congress wants to take the political risk of resurrecting the federal assault-weapons ban, which the Republican Congress allowed to expire in 2004. Although majorities of Americans support the ban, and even President George W. Bush endorsed it in the 2000 campaign, some Democrats fear that it's just not worth angering the N.R.A...
...support. "You could very easily envision a challenge to the Brady Law on the grounds that there shouldn't be background checks for the exercise of a constitutional right," says Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Henigan also imagines challenges to the federal machine-gun ban and to a wide array of state licensing and registration laws. And convicted criminals might routinely contest the sentencing laws that increase their jail time for using...
...contrast, if the Supreme Court rejects the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, it could provoke a backlash in the opposite direction. "If the court upholds the D.C. handgun ban, it would be a real tsunami, a very energizing event for Second Amendment enthusiasts," says former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia and N.R.A. board member. "It would highlight the importance of maintaining the presidency to get good Second Amendment judges." In other words, when they go to war before the Supreme Court, both gun-rights and gun-control advocates should be careful what...
After this ruling, in which the Supreme Court upheld a national ban on partial birth abortion, both the pro-choice and pro-life camps emerged with their rhetorical guns blazing. While I consider myself pro-choice and I believe life begins at birth and not conception, I have come to realize the pro-choice movement can be just as delusional as the pro-lifers who cling militantly to the notion that a fetus is a life form...