I don’t necessarily disagree with the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that Washington D.C.’s gun ban was unconstitutional, and that Americans indeed have the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting.

Methinks, though, Judge Scalia is dismissing one significant concern here:

Scalia said nothing in Thursday’s ruling should “cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.”

I can see a legal challenge to the possession of firearms in government buildings. Your local township office, perhaps?

We walk a fine line on the issue of firearms. I’m all Charlton Heston when it comes to my right to defend my home the way I see fit, with firearms as necessary. But where I’ve always parted company is with those who insist on the right to be their own militia; to own the arsenal of automatic weapons, etc. Collecting is one thing; but amongst some gun aficianados there is indeed this creepy sense that they can’t wait to haul out the AK-47 and show you all.