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Human end of the Chicago case
Here's the story. Interesting. Lead plaintiff, Otis McDonald, is a 76 year old grandfather and lives with his wife in a risky neighborhood. He's been burglarized repeatedly and once threatened with death. He has shotguns, but can't keep them on the nightstand when he turns in.
All in all, the perfect person to be bringing a 2nd and 14th Amendment challenge.
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I hope that Mr. McDonald is allowed to sit at the table with his lawyers. It would be nice for the Justices to have to look at a man like that as they consider him not being allowed to have a gun in his home for self-defense
The article itself had illustrative value, too. The Chicago Tribune is extremely anti-gun: shortly after Heller was handed down, they actually editorialized that the Second Amendment was obsolete and bad and should be repealed. Not an op-ed piece, but an actual stated editorial.
This article's author revealed the tension in the Tower, struggling to repress the shop's activist standard operating procedures but leaking the shop's true beliefs all over the place.
Doing the oppo research on McDonald and bringing out his lawsuit history is grotesque. The treatment of the other plaintiffs is perfunctory and indicative of the writer's and editor's annoyance with the whole subject.
Still, it was the big, near-full-front page article of the Sunday edition, and the screamer headline did say "gun rights" in those plain words.
Worth the two bucks just to see them squirm.
Wow, I realize this will sound petty, but I sure hope this gentleman remains healthy through at least June, if not for many years to come!