Supreme Court to Review D.C Gunlaw...........

...... Ole' Pecoz can see all manner of mischief in this announcement;

"After a hiatus of 68 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to rule on the meaning of the Second Amendment — the hotly contested part of the Constitution that guarantees “a right to keep and bear arms.” Not since 1939 has the Court heard a case directly testing the Amendment’s scope — and there is a debate about whether it actually decided anything in that earlier ruling. In a sense, the Court may well be writing on a clean slate if, in the end, it decides the ultimate question: does the Second Amendment guarantee an individual right to have a gun for private use, or does it only guarantee a collective right to have guns in an organized military force such as a state National Guard unit?"

It's said that optimists see a glass half full and a pessimist sees the same glass as half empty. Well, Ole' Pecoz sees this situation as half full of promise that the only reason the Supremes took this case on - was to settle for once and for all - that the right to bear arms is spelled out in the Constitution for every individual in this land, not just in this Eastern Federal District Court's domain. Any damn law that says "only the bad guys" can have weapons and the law abiders shall remain victims is one sorry ass law!

But I reckon there are a whole passel of folks that believe that the court took it on to settle the question the other way! Like I said down below when this first came up, I'm sure glad it's come up this year and not after the next presidential election....

What will be really interesting --- no matter which way the Court decides, is how the losing side will brush this finding plumb across the face of next years Presidential campaign. Do we elect a President who will appoint 'progressive' judges who will interpret what they want in the Constitution or 'conservatives' who will read the words of the Constitution and abide by them?

Since my city council and state legislature can foul up my life a whole lot more than the President of these United States, I reckon the deciding factor in my vote next year will be which candidate will appoint judges who will rule according to written law, not try to write the law they own selves.....!