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Guns and the Constitution in the District
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The federal appeals court ruling on the District's gun law violated the Supreme Court's landmark 1939 constitutional interpretation and, in the process, common sense.
Neither the political and intellectual assumptions of our Founding Fathers when the Bill of Rights was adopted nor English precedent supports the idea that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of an individual to possess a gun. If allowed to stand, this ruling will surely result in more violence and more deaths in the nation's capital, and it may lead to the destruction of gun-control laws nationwide.
All residents should vigorously support the efforts of District Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) to successfully appeal this ruling.
LOIS G. SCHWOERER
Washington
