Showdown

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will hear D.C. v. Heller, which is expected to decide if the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for one's self defense is indeed an individual right, or if the Founders somehow managed to enumerate nine personal rights out of the ten in the Bill of Rights, and that they meant for the Second to be a "collective" right. Reading the Federalist Papers quickly disabuses that theory, and hopefully the Court will agree.

Since an appeals court has already struck down the District's total ban on handguns as unconstitutional, the D.C. government is going to have to strive mightily to convince the Supremes otherwise, in my opinion.

Cross your fingers.