Heller Line Pictures

I went down last night to take some pictures of the public line for getting into the Heller oral arguments. It was dark, but it felt much like people waiting to get tickets for a rock concert. Sleeping bags. Camping lights. Pizza boxes! What makes this so unfortunate is that there are rumors that members of Congress may decide to attend--and they get priority over the masses on the public audience space. To be young has so many advantages!









I only found one person in line willing to defend DC's position--and she was a lawyer with Legal Community Against Violence who had written their brief. I had a heck of a time getting her to defend what the Second Amendment did protect. She agreed that it did protect some kind of an individual right--but exactly what, she wasn't prepared to articulate. She seemed focused primarily on the idea that whatever it protected, the Fourteenth Amendment could not incorporate the Second Amendment against the states--and that DC was not part of the federal government, and therefore the Second Amendment didn't restrict DC government--only the federal government.

I sense a monumental victory coming for us when their side can't come up with an argument better than this.

UPDATE: I removed one picture above with a sign that said "Guns Are Why America Is Free" because the law student holding it had been doing so just for fun, and felt that it would not go over well with his fellow law students, since his own views on this are more "nuanced" than that. A John Kerry in training!