The Beginning of the End

Hopefully, good news in a few months:

• Chicago's longstanding ban on handguns within city limits will go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case that will have serious legal ramifications nationwide.

  Handguns have been outlawed in Chicago for 28 years. But in 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court reversed a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., emboldening gun-rights activists to challenge the Chicago law. Suburban Oak Park, which has even stronger gun legislation, is also involved in the lawsuit.

A number of local media outlets are still quoting Daley's inanities about banning guns reduces violence, somehow missing the fact that in the 48 states with concealed carry or shall-issue laws experienced double-digit reductions in violent crime and even bigger drops in property crime. Gun laws only affect the law abiding and do nothing to stop a criminal who is already intent on breaking the law.

A ruling should be handed down around June.