There is hope for America....

This is preliminary, but it looks as if our individual right to protect ourselves with firearms is alive and well. wOOt!!!

Foxnews.com: Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban, Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Court: A constitutional right to a gun: "Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, or laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, or laws putting conditions on gun sales.

In District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), the Court nullified two provisions of the city of Washington’s strict 1976 gun control law: a flat ban on possessing a gun in one’s home, and a requirement that any gun — except one kept at a business — must be unloaded and disassembled or have a trigger lock in place. The Court said it was not passing on a part of the law requiring that guns be licensed."

Government stealing

ABC news.com: Not-So-Safe Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizen's Property to Balance Their Budgets:

"The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn't really unclaimed and then use the money -- your money -- to balance their budgets.

Unclaimed property consists of things like forgotten apartment security deposits, uncashed dividend checks and safe-deposit boxes abandoned when an elderly relative dies.

Banks and other businesses are required to turn that property over to the state for safekeeping. The problem is that the states return less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the rightful owners (emphasis mine)."

I'm actually surprised that near 25% of this property, which is stolen by our government, is returned. I figured that the criminals who we keep electing to office would just make off with all of it. Maybe politicians are really stupid. Can they really think that nobody would notice only 75% of their stuff missing?

Of course, if the government stopped wasting money by the billions, they wouldn't have to steal. Its not like we aren't paying enough taxes.