It's such a weird country. Americans have a constitutional right to shoot each other but not to universal health care or to marry someone you love if they're the same sex as you.From ABC News...
Appeals court rejects D-C gun ban
March 09, 2007 14:00 EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A long-standing ban on handguns in Washington, D-C, is being overturned by a federal appeals court.
The court is rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms only applies to militias.
A lower-court judge had told six D-C residents three years ago that they don't have a constitutional right to own handguns. The plaintiffs include residents of high-crime neighborhoods who wanted the guns for protection.
In today's two-to-one decision, the judge held that the Second Amendment doesn't just apply to militia service, or to people with "intermittent enrollment in the militia."
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