Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
So McDonald v Chicago was an intellectual exercise?
Like Heller, the McDonald decision restricted government from infringing on the right of law abiding citizens.Many citizens in both Chicago and DC were disobeying the law prior to those decisions. Some of those citizens were gainfully employed in non-criminal enterprises while others were involved in criminal enterprises...the rest were government employees. The primary purpose for those decisions was to block government from criminalizing non-criminal behavior and confiscating guns from otherwise law abiding citizens.

There were plenty of guns in Chicago and DC before McDonald and Heller and there are plenty of guns in those cities after the court decisions. The decisions only affect the people who voluntarily obey the laws in the first place. Quadruple the number of police in both cities and you will still have crimes committed with guns by criminals and people who don't want to be victims using guns to defend themselves. Do you really believe a bunch of lawyers could change that reality by putting a few sentences together and voting on it?