Landmark decision, 5-4, the Second Amendment is an individual Right and the handgun ban in Washington D.C. is unconstitutional. While this is the decision all Pro-2nd people have known was fact for 232 years, it was not perfect. 4 of the 9 members of the Supreme Court did not properly understand the Bill of Rights.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_guns
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/26/scotus.guns/index.html
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for four colleagues, said the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home." In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons." With Scalia were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. The other dissenters were Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter.
Chicago, Illinois, has a handgun ban as sweeping as Washington's, though Maryland, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California, joined the Windy City in issuing briefs supporting the district's ban. Guess who's next, guys? That's right..Chicago, San Fran, and all the others crappy anti-Bill of Rights have to fall.
