Tuesday, March 18, 2008

On dodging a bullet...

Literally.

The US Supreme Court appears ready to rule that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their home for self-defence, a ruling that could help Republicans in the upcoming presidential election.

Hearing the most important gun rights case in nearly 70 years, the justices on Tuesday spent 98 minutes engrossed in a lively debate about British and American legal traditions relating to the right to bear arms, especially in self-defence.

The absolute saddest thing about this whole affair is that it went to SCOTUS in the first place.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were put in place to protect people from the government. Period.

Why is that so difficult for liberals to understand?

More here.