[VaSteve]

I still don't get why people outside of DC care. All of the letters in the paper today were from out of area people. Why do people outside of DC care? They even had a woman from pittsburgh holding up a sign in support of the decision. Why? I can't see myself being compelled to hold up a sign about anything...and I'm close by.

On another note, some guy was dissecting the intent of the second amendment based on its sentence structure and the rules of latin that "the Framers were well versed in..." I work with people all day long in the gov't that have more education (I suspect) than the agricultural Framers of the Constitution 200+ years ago. We debate the wording of the most meaningless memos. I find it hard to believe that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were given the constant word smithing and second guessing we give everything these days. I don't think people back then were that much more enlightened then we are now. I doubt they thought we'd be second guessing and interpreting their intent 200 years later. I'm going to have to be that much more careful with my work in case it lasts that long!