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Ken Odor
Jul 01, 2008

Just a hundred miles up the road in D.C., nine folks in long robes settled a controversy that has roiled politics for decades, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the Second Amendment means what it says.

Which is, that the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms is protected by the Constitution. The “collective right” argument is now dead.

But the nanny state folks, while licking their wounds, are now busy hatching more strategies, and reviving old ones like a renewed “ assault weapons ban,” to restrict individual Second Amendment rights so as to keep citizens who don’t know what’s good for them from doing something unwise.

Like owning a firearm.

Expect an avalanche of new legislation to appear in the next congress and in state legislatures all over the nation, designed to discourage, hamper and make more expensive citizens’ ownership of weapons.

Here in Hanover, the board of supervisors weapons committee has produced some ideas for a new ordinance restricting where firearms may be discharged.

Some of the ideas seem reasonable, such as increasing the distance for firing a weapon from 100 to 200 yards from an occupied dwelling.

But another proposed change, extending the ban to the entire urban service area, might not be necessary.

Hopefully all this will work itself out and the board will take seriously what it hears at any public hearing on a proposed new weapons ordinance, just as it took to heart the citizens’ views in the Ashland district school board matter.

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