Decius wrote:
Clearly, by the 1970's, these rationales for keeping firearms were gone, and at the same time you saw a rising tide of inner city violence caused by the peak of the suburban abandonment of the city, and thus you saw the sort of gun control laws beginning in the 1980's that this whole debate refers to. The pendellum is, today, swinging the other direction in many respects. Our cities are becoming safer, and the rates of violence are going down, but, like racism, it will take several generations to work some of this history out.

To say that because the "cities are safer", we should give up our Right to Bear Arms, is a bit like saying, "to stop terrorism" we should give up our Liberty.

While we're at it, we should also destroy the entire Bill of Rights... it's just not needed in todays' "advanced" society.

I have one word for that... Bullcrap.

RE: Guns for Safety? Dream On, Scalia. - washingtonpost.com