If the District of Columbia doesn't have the highest crime rate in the country it is in the top ten.  But since 1976 D.C. has had one of the strictest gun control laws in the country.  This week, the Supreme Court will review the issue:

"The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment's meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years.

'This may be one of the only cases in our lifetime when the Supreme Court is going to be interpreting the meaning of an important provision of the Constitution unencumbered by precedent,' said Randy E. Barnett, a constitutional scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. 'And that's why there's so much discussion on the original meaning of the Second Amendment.'"

Read the rest here.

Thanks, David.