A Critical Decision for the Supreme Court

Another day another senseless shooting on a school campus. The Supreme Court has the opportunity in the coming months to slow down the carnage. In

The question for the Court is whether that opening phrase has any meaning. The Court will consider whether the Amendment prohibits the District from banning handguns in a statute passed to reduce the amount of murders in our Nation’s Capital. Does the Amendment apply only to the right of states to arm militias in the form of police forces or the national guard or does it confer a right on every individual to own handguns, automatic weapons, and other firearms?  

Numerous Friends of the Court have weighed in on both sides with more than one hundred briefs available over at Scotus. They range from briefs by Police Unions, District Attorney Associations, Historians,  Physician and Public Health Groups, the NAACP , and the American Jewish Committee filed on behalf of the District of Columbia to those by the Bush Administration, the NRA, Pink Pistols, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership filed on behalf of those opposed to the handgun ban.

Here is a decision by the High Court which has the potential of creating real and historic change at a time when politicians seem incapable of acting.

Alan Milstein