National Media Suddenly Discovering Washington DC Firearms Rights Case

Here is a roundup of national media and regional pieces regarding how the U.S. Supreme Court, as early as today, may decide to review the Parker v. District of Columbia case, and "clarify" the meaning of the Second Amendment. (By the way, the issue is now being called the "District of Columbia v. Heller," because officials in Washington D.C. are appealing the matter to the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn the lower court ruling.)

ABC News
CBS News
NBC News
Washington Post
Baltimore Sun
Rocky Mountain News
Seattle Times
USA Today (on why the Supreme Court matters)
Dave Kopel on Institutionalized Bigotry in DC (older post, worth re-reading)

For review, here is a link to a study of the Miller decision, written by Glenn Harlan Reynolds of the University of Tennessee College of Law, and Brannon P. Denning, Cumberland School of Law.

Author's Note: The 2A doesn't need clarification . . . it means what it means, but decades of lobbying by those who would deny a woman the right to choose how she wants to defend herself have got the public and the media convinced of the "collective right" theory over what the Framers understood and intended. Legal scholars agree with increasing frequency that the 2A affirms an individual right. The Framers believe that right existed prior to the Bill of Rights being put on parchment. In fact, there was debate among many at the time of the Constitution's writing who said a Bill of Rights was unnecessary . . . that it was redundant and need not be written.

The Washington Post story is interesting in that the paper talks to experts who say the reason stats show the D.C. handgun ban probably isn't working is not because of the law, but because there isn't enough data, or because of the manner in which data is collected. We've never heard THAT before, have we?