Since the U.S. Supreme Court has officially decided it is the right of every American to own a gun, all I can say is, let the shootin' begin!
And it has, of course--The very day the court handed down its decision, a guy in Kentucky went on a rampage at his job, killing five co-workers and himself. It didn't get a whole lot of play in the national media because, frankly, what's another office shooting at this point? Heck, even school shootings are getting to be routine.
Now, with the very real possibility that guns will be even easier to obtain, it could turn into Dodge City on Mainstreet, USA--or at least in big cities like Washington, DC. The attempt by the mayor and law enforcement officials in DC to prohibit concealed weapons was the very move that inspired the right-wing nutjobs at the Cato Institute top take this case to the Supreme Court in the first place, not caring a whit that the DC ban was a reasonable attempt to staunch the flow of street violence.
Since the violence doesn't effect them personally, they simply don't care. Conservatives crow their support for Law 'N' Order louder than anyone, yet police organizations in most big cities favor some sort of restriction on handguns. Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think?
