Over at DP, Bill Quick is Holding His Breath on the DC gun case but finds optimism nonetheless.

Further, the court is a political animal. The justices, I’m sure, took note of what happened with the recent immigration debacle. They can only imagine what would happen if they threatened the RKBA of some 80 million gun owners, some tiny percentage of which are the sort of whackjobs who might take umbrage at the individual justices themselves. Politicians have never been famous for seeking out that sort of potentially lethal disagreement.

Hell hath no fury like millions upon millions of very enthusiastic gun owners pissed off at politics and tired of getting the shaft over ridiculous liberal arguments that aren’t based in common sense. At least, that’s how I think the saying goes.

After all …

And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson - U.S. President, Signer of the Declaration

The notion that the 2nd Amendment is not based on an individual right is pure garbage and all the usual suspects know it. That being said, if the court comes down on the wrong side of this - and make no mistake, it is currently already on the wrong side considering all of the ridiculous bans and legislation out there - expect to see lots of angry people with the “spirit of resistance” immediately open carrying their firearms in public the moment a possibly cowardly ruling comes down.

Let them take arms, indeed.

And like I said previously - this issue has a chance to absolutely dominate the 2008 election and I couldn’t be happier about it.