Rich Heller is a special police officer in Washington, D.C., licensed by the city government to carry a handgun in the performance of his duties protecting the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center. While city officials want Heller to carry a gun to protect federal judges on government property, they have barred him from possessing a similar gun in his own home to protect himself and his family from criminals in his high-crime neighborhood.

So, Mr. Heller is suing based on the second amendment (maybe equal protection would work too!)

Also interesting from the article is that: Studies by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics dating back to 1994 show that a crime victim is actually as much as 50 percent less likely to be injured if they use a firearm to resist a criminal than if they resist with any other weapon, resist with no weapon, offer no resistance or cooperation or even fully comply with the criminal’s demands.

Again, debunking the Brady Center’s claim that you should just comply with the robbery, rape, or your own murder; and you’ll be safe.

Posted in uncategorized on April 18th, 2003 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |