Interesting article (careful...it's very anti-gun) in "America - The National Catholic Weekly":
http://www.americamagazine.org/conte...ticle_id=11978
This excerpt of a few quotes by Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center really irritated me (emphasis is mine in bold):
Kristen Rand, legislative director at the nonprofit Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., pointed out to America that such weapons all come from jurisdictions without strong laws like Chicago’s. “You can’t buy a handgun in Chicago or the District of Columbia legally, so traffickers go to states with weaker laws and then bring them to the cities that don’t allow their purchase.” For Ms. Rand and other gun control advocates, one of the worst aspects of a victory by those who mounted McDonald v. Chicago would be that it would remove what she called “the most effective measures to prevent handgun violence.” She observed that the Supreme Court in both Heller and now in McDonald is examining the issue solely as a question of constitutional law “and not in terms of the deadly effect on citizens of gun violence.” The court should know better than most that, as former U.S. Justice Robert H. Jackson said, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
[sarcasm]Imagine the nerve of any Supreme Court justice who would examine an issue before the court in terms of constitutional law and not wild rhetoric and emotion![/sarcasm]
That's right, Ms Rand. It's not a "suicide pact". That's why the 2nd Amendment is there. So We The People can defend ourselves...not only from bad guys but from morons like you that would leave us defenseless against predators.
"Most effective measures to prevent handgun violence"...WTF ever! When does it become obvious to these mental midgets that criminals don't obey the law.
