States' Rights

The latest from the left coast, according to AP:

San Francisco supervisors want voters to approve a sweeping handgun ban that would prohibit almost everyone except law enforcement officers, security guards and military members from possessing firearms in the city.

The measure, which will appear on the municipal ballot next year, would bar residents from keeping guns in their homes or businesses, Bill Barnes, an aide to Supervisor Chris Daly, said Wednesday. It would also prohibit the sale, manufacturing and distribution of handguns and ammunition in San Francisco, as well as the transfer of gun licenses.

Thought experiment: imagine the reaction were a state (Utah, for example) proposing to ban in-state abortions. Got that? Now ask yourself: how did a "penumbra" of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments, see Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 484-85 (1965), become more sacrosanct than the Second Amendment itself?

(via Publicola)