Supreme Court To Chicago On Gun Control: Go To Heller!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Gun Control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For or against, you are going to have a fight on your hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But where is this fight to take place?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Is it going to be on the village greens of Lexington and Concord?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>On the fields of Gettysburg? The dirt streets of Tombstone, leading on down to the O.K. Corral?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Maybe at the base of the walls of the Alamo, down in San Antonio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Possibly on the campus of Kent State, or even at the now reserved setting of a school board meeting in Columbine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>There are some mean streets in Ourtown, U.S.A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>From New York City, to Washington D.C., and on to Chicago, where historic mob gun battles took place in the Capone Prohibition days, guns continue to blaze away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But what to do about it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Should we outlaw guns altogether?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Or, as the saying goes, if we outlaw guns, will only outlaws have guns?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Do we listen to Michael Moore, or the N.R.A.?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Where can we find some common ground, and, maybe some answers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The United States Supreme Court has already heard oral arguments on the City Of Chicago’s ban on handguns, and its decision is imminent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What will be the outcome, and where will the Court go to seek a majority, if not a consensus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The answer may be a not so long look back, to the Court’s decision in District Of Columbia v. Heller (1), decided in June of 2008.</span></span></em></p>