Oral arguments began today to decide whether the Second Amendment applies to the states. The plaintiff, Otis McDonald, sums up his case:
"There's more guns coming into this city than the police can take away from them. So if I've got a gun, and if others have guns in their homes to protect themselves, then that's one thing that police would have to worry about less." "It makes me feel like the city cares more for the thugs than they do me, and I'm the one paying taxes,"
Indeed. No matter how many arcane legal arguments are made, Mr. McDonald understands that his inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are meaningless without the means to defend them.
In 1982, Chicago imposed the strict gun ordinance to help combat rampant gang and firearm violence that plagued the city.
In court papers, lawyers for the city of Chicago pointed out that 402 of the 412 firearm homicides occurred with the use of handguns in 2008.
Right, and those crimes were committed by criminals who don't give a rip about gun laws. The only thing Chicago's gun laws have succeeded in doing is to prevent law abiding citizens from defending themselves and their community.
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