D.C. Takes Gun Battle to Supreme Court

D. C. attorneys are trying to get the Supreme Court to intervene in the city's goal of disarming law abiding, responsible citizens who are underserved by police, are surrounded by violence, and desire only the ability to defend themselves, their families, and their property.
It just disgusts me that politicians are willing to prohibit individuals from defending themselves, jettisoning the individual in the blind hope that it will help the whole and particularly in spite of evidence to the contrary. When gun laws are liberalized in the U.S., crime does not go up. Nations with more restrictive gun laws and similar cultures - Canada, Europe, etc. - have much higher rates of rape, home invasion, and petty theft.

Also, D.C. is a very small city surrounded by states which have much more liberal rules on gun ownership. Simply banning the legal ownership of handguns in the city is not going to have any effects; the guns could just as easily come from Baltimore or Richmond or elsewhere. The only thing it is doing, and the only thing that these laws ever do, is disarming the law abiding citizens who desire only self-defense. Gang members are going to get guns; violent criminals are going to get guns. Banning homeowners who want them only for self-defense is not going to impact the ability of the criminals to get them.

D.C. Takes Gun Battle to Supreme Court
ABC News

The District of Columbia appealed to the Supreme Court today, asking to uphold its decade-long ban on private ownership of handguns, paving the way for a possible Second Amendment showdown in the high court.

Attorneys representing D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty petitioned the Supreme Court in an effort to save the district's gun law, arguing that access to a handgun would be a direct threat to D.C. residents: "Whatever right the Second Amendment guarantees, it does not require the district to stand by while its citizens die."

Part of the mayor's concern is that more handguns, even legal ones, would ultimately cause more problems. "The District of Columbia has too many handguns," Fenty said. "Putting more handguns, even quote-unquote legal ones, into the quote-unquote law-abiding citizens could get into the hands of people who are going to use them in the commission of crimes."

The petition asks the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling from earlier this year that struck down the D.C. gun ban.