A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Is that not poetry at it's finest. "...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." What an amazing document our marvelous Founding Fathers gave us. And last week the Supreme Court actually upheld this sacred tradition, this sacred right of allowing the People to arm themselves in the District of Columbia.

D.C., long since a bastion of liberal ideology, has banned the ownership of guns for a long time. It has also enjoyed one of the highest per capita crime by gun rates in the nation. While D.C.'s rate has dropped in recent years so has its population by nearly a quarter.
Feel free to check that here... http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_Control_Regulations_Act_of_1975
Thanks to the above listed Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, it has been illegal to own a firearm in D.C. since 1976. But the crime rate in DC is like the crime rate anywhere, guns have nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact, when you look at the stats above you wil see that in the years after the ban the rate actually went up. Finally, it appears that the Supreme Court understands that, at least 5 of them do (let's be honest, we caught Kennedy on a good day, otherwise this would have been another nail in the coffin for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights). 5 to 4 decisions scare the hell out of me, and they should scare the hell out of you too. Whether you are a Democrat, Liberal Republican or Conservative, some things should be looked upon as fundamental.

The Constitution should not be a 5-4 decision. Slavery was Constitutional, but wrong, and it was abolished not by one side or the other, but be both sides, same with the Civil Right legislation in the 60's. Johnson was not passing that stuff by himself, nor were the Democrats, it took serious people from both sides to understand what was going on and what needed to be done to change it, regardless of political posturing, it needed to be done.

But the Supreme Court has been playing the split 4-5, 5-4 thing too often in my opinion. Constitutionality is not a political ploy, it is indeed the very backbone of this society. We are a nation of laws, not of personal preferences, unless of course you can get your personal preference passed into law.

But back to the Guns...

Every free adult person in DC, without a felony record or other limitation to gun ownership, can now legally own a gun.  This is a good day for America, and one which I waited a week to write about to see if anyone on the left would bring it up. Unless I missed something somewhere, none of you did. But you were all on board when HC was granted to terrorist and others who have been held in Gitmo. Here a right was fully restored to citizens of this nation and you say nothing.

I have to wonder if it is because
A. You just don't care about the Gun thing (understandable since you have little regard for anything that retains the freedom of the people to think for themselves)
B. You disagree with the high courts decision
C. You didn't want anything to distract you from the day to day bad news express we have going here.
D. You didn't know about the decision
E. It doesn't matter to you because you don't have to live in DC
F. Somehow in your twisted liberal minds, all of the above.

But there is something here that underlines this entire debate. Why did this ever have to go to the Supreme Court? "...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Could this not be understood by any other court in the land? No appeals court saw this and thought, "Well that's pretty clear cut isn't it!"?

When you go to the election booth this November, think about the Supreme Court and the impact these 9 people (they are people just like you and I) have on your daily lives. Then think about all the other judges that are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate who, had they been of right mind, would have intercepted this case years ago and did what was right saving us from relying on the Supreme Court to make a decision like this.

I manage a department for my company. I encourage my people to "make the call" without always having to rely on me to make it for them. I manage assets in the millions, but I also manage people. If the people I train, manage and motivate could not a make a simple decision based clearly on guidelines from our company handbook, I would remove them from the system. Look at the Constitution as America's Company Handbook. "...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This means the people can have guns, period.

If your company said, "...the right of employees to keep and reload fountain pens shall not be infringed" and someone in the company decided that department (A) could no longer have fountain pens; what would you do? Gun ownership in America is that cut and dry.

You would can that person for being an idiot.

Well, in November, we need to not only vote the right guy into office, we need to take a serious look at the idiots we have serving on the benches in this country and remove a few hundred of them. Vote for the constitution, vote for your freedom, vote for change to the system not just for change in general.

I am not endorsing any one candidate here. You are smart enough to know what you need to do. But if you don't vote, you can't bitch. So reserve your right to bitch if nothing else.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.

PS. As predicted the lawsuits are already starting from Gitmo detainees. What an embarrassment the Supreme Court can be some days.