AP: "Obama Supports Individual Gun Rights": "That's the Associated Press headline, but let's look at what the article actually says: "At his news conference, he voiced support for the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next month." Hmm. I guess Associated Press meant that Obama supports the inalienable right of an individual to obediently surrender his handgun to the government. Suppose that an individual refuses. Would Obama waive all penalties for first-time gun control offenders, like he would for first-time drug users? Some drug users are addicts, and some are not (I don't know which Obama was when he was a teen). Why would non-addicts need the government's "help" to quit using cocaine, as Obama suggests? And why does Obama think that forcibly separating a cocaine addict from cocaine is not a legitimate tool for ending the addiction? Maybe the Associated Press can explain all this, because I have no idea."


Oklahoma Domestic Dispute Leads To Shooting: "The Tulsa Police Department is investigating whether a woman shot her ex-boyfriend in self-defense. It started as a domestic dispute and led to a shooting on Tuesday morning. Officers were called to the scene near 1500 East 51st Place North around 8 a.m. Police say the woman said her ex-boyfriend had come by Monday night, slashed her tires, and then beat her. Police say when he came back on Tuesday, she shot him four times with a .22-caliber handgun. The man drove himself to the hospital and is expected to recover. Police say the woman was also taken to the hospital for her injuries."


Seachange: "Congress now respects the Second Amendment. Bush doesn't. This Washington Post headline today was striking: "Majority of Hill Stands Against D.C. Gun Ban." Congressmen and senators are individually signing on to a brief that supports those who want the ban banned. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is leading the fight. This is in stark contrast to President Bush who has sided with those who want to disarm the people of Washington, D.C. The ban was enacted 30 years ago as a means to reduce crime. Washington now has the second-highest crime rate in the nation among cities with 500,000 or more people. Only Detroit topped the nation's capital. The congressional brief includes this: "This court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms. The District's prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable."