Supreme Court U.
gun lobby before the Supreme Court has won a decisive victory. The verdict is a tragedy for America, where 13,000 people are killed each year. A number like a war zone - it will increase. />
With the ruling of the Supreme Court has allowed the gun lobby to a decisive victory. The five conservative judges confirmed that it considers that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives all citizens the right to own a gun for self-defense. This means that states and municipalities may not restrict the possession and carrying of weapons in the future at best very carefully, in schools or public buildings. Comprehensive bans on weapons, as they are still in many American cities, can now be challenged in the courts and are likely to tip over.
For America, this unrealistic interpretation of the Constitution, which contradicted the four liberal judges on the Supreme Court expressly a tragedy. It is a verdict that cost the life is. The Second Amendment comes from the year 1791 - a time when the young United States had just independence from the British Crown struggled as weapons meant to have are a margined gun in his log cabin to be necessary against redcoats, Indians, and Bear to defend. Today, gun ownership in America means that young drug dealers make war in the middle of residential neighborhoods with automatic weapons. Often enough, not only the young desperadoes, but also children playing in front yards and grandmothers in rocking chairs, caught in the crossfire.
Die so depressing as the court's decision is the ducking of President Barack Obama. The head of state began his political career once in the slums of the South Side of Chicago, he knows very well what toll the lax guns laws especially in poor, black neighborhoods calling. But the President has decided early to stay out of the highly charged ideological struggle for the gun. Tactically this may be clever, because gun control is not an issue with which to win elections in America. Obama's moral behavior, however, is cowardly.
