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 […]

And this I didn’t know: There are more NRA members in Pennsylvania than any other state.

Yet another sordid Lancaster County tale, as if we haven’t had enough of them in recent years. But speaking of, there’s a common threat between this murder-suicide in the southern end and the Ludwig-Borden case a few years ago:
WGAL just reported that the .22 that appears to hav been used by Mike Hollow to kill […]

First time I met him, he showed me the gun. We’d exited an Italian restaurant and he and I walked a few paces behind the others. “Let me show you something,” he said; and out of his pocket he pulled a small handgun, almost a Derringer. Maybe it was a Derringer; it’s not like I […]

I caught Ray Schoenke in the car on his way home from Lancaster, where he’d presented Mayor Rick Gray with a check for $1,000 from his fledgling organization to help fight gun crime in Lancaster.
Which, while nice, might not seem too significant. Until you consider that Schoenke heads a gun group called the American Hunters […]

The threads regarding the horrific Manheim Township murder have taken a predictable tack. Basically, any time there’s a terrible crime, you get the same thing.
The gun guys say, “If only the victims had a gun.”
Look, as a liberal I’m supposed to hate guns and want all sorts of new restrictions on them, but I don’t. […]