Good News on the Gun Front

Looks like Chicago is going to join the United States of America finally. The Sun Times:

• The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to hear a challenge to Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban likely means the other holster is ready to fall on the ban, advocates on both sides of the issue seemed to agree Wednesday.

  “A year from now there will not be a Chicago handgun ban,” said Alan Gura, the attorney representing the gun owners fighting the ban.

  The high court’s five-member conservative majority last year threw out Washington, D.C.’s gun ban in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, but stopped short of invalidating the rest of the country’s handgun bans because that case dealt with federal bans, not local ones.

And more coverage at the Tribune:

• By agreeing to hear a challenge to Chicago's sweeping ban on handguns, the U.S. Supreme Court set the stage Wednesday for a historic ruling on gun rights.
  
  At issue is whether state and local gun-control ordinances can be struck down as violating the "right to keep and bear arms" cited in the Second Amendment. A high court ruling on the city's 27-year-old ban, which could come by summer, could open the door to legal challenges of various gun control measures nationwide.
  
  Chicago gun rights advocates applauded the court's decision, saying that it gave them a good chance of overturning the ban, which they argue gives criminals an advantage over other citizens. They say that lifting the ban would help reduce violence on city streets and allow citizens to protect themselves in their homes.

Luckily, Daley says the city is broke, so he shouldn't be able to mount much of a defense at the Supreme Court next year. Right? We mean, he wouldn't possibly think of wasting taxpayer money on a losing proposition like this, would he? Everything is tied up in the Olympic bid, right?

We eagerly await the lies and fictions that are to be put forth by Shortshanks and his sycophants about "streets being more dangerous," "rivers of blood," and other such popular fictions that have been disproven in 48 other states that have handgun ownership. We also look forward to citizens helping to reduce the street crime rates.