Cheney gets tough on guns

[Mike.357]

Encouraging story about Heller and our lawmakers

Cheney gets tough on gun-rights case

Joins Supreme Court brief in challenge to D.C. handgun ban

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney took the unusual step Friday of joining with lawmakers in signing a Supreme Court brief that goes further in support of gun rights than the one submitted by the Bush administration.

The filings were made in a case that challenges the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. It was scheduled to be argued on March 18.

Both briefs argue that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. However, the administration contends that too categorical a ruling could threaten other federal gun restrictions and wants the justices to send the case back to lower courts without deciding whether the handgun ban should fall.

Cheney joined more than 300 senators and representatives, led by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who want the court to rule that Washington's ban is unconstitutional.

"The vice president believes strongly in Second Amendment rights," Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said.

Seventeen Democratic lawmakers and District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton urged the court to uphold the ban.

Lawyers with long experience at the court could not recall another case in which a vice president took a position different from that of his own administration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23075904

Finally something to be proud of Cheney for.!!

[Mike.357]

[Guest jackdog]

Dick I had no idea you really cared

[Guest SomeGuy]

I was always ambivalent about the VP, now I actually like old man Cheney.

[strickj]

I really started liking him when he shot that lawyer and then had the lawyer apologize to Dick was priceless

[Guest jackdog]

would have betterif they shot each other.

[Marswolf]

I keep hoping Dubya will quit or something so Cheney will become the President. I'm sure half of the liberals in Congress would pass away from apoplexy.

[towerclimber37]

yah..they're afraid of him for some reason..him and Karl Rove.

[Guest canynracer]

Go Cheney, go Cheney

[Guest HexHead]

I keep hoping Dubya will quit or something so Cheney will become the President. I'm sure half of the liberals in Congress would pass away from apoplexy.

Even better if he hanged all Dems in Congress and ordered liberals rounded up and sent to "re-education" camps.