Washington Post Editorial Lambasts Court Ban Void

The Washington Post is upset that a court just voided Washington D.C.'s gun ban:

IN OVERTURNING the District of Columbia's long-standing ban on handguns yesterday, a federal appeals court turned its back on nearly 70 years of Supreme Court precedent to give a new and dangerous meaning to the Second Amendment. If allowed to stand, this radical ruling will inevitably mean more people killed and wounded as keeping guns out of the city becomes harder. Moreover, if the legal principles used in the decision are applied nationally, every gun control law on the books would be imperiled.

The 2 to 1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down sections of a 1976 law that bans city residents from having handguns in their homes. The court also overturned the law's requirement that shotguns and rifles be stored disassembled or with trigger locks. The court grounded its unprecedented ruling in the finding that the Second Amendment right to bear arms extends beyond militias to individuals. The activities the Second Amendment protects, the judges wrote, "are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or continued intermittent enrollment in the militia."


Never before has a law been struck down on that basis.

We wonder if the Washington Post knows how to count.The nation's capital often has a higher murder rate than say Houston or Dallas in a given year.Also,according to the Post's logic,we should still have slavery because it was popular with a large segment of the public and there was decades of case law to back it up.