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For Second Amendment advocates there are no limits to where you can carry a concealed weapon. Thus, you have these organizations and individuals who are scared to death of "the terrorist threat" yet argue that Mr. Bush has the right to take away their Fourth Amendment right but simultaneously argue that they have their Second Amendment right to carry a gun anywhere they want to. To wit, from AP (via MSNBC.com):
ATLANTA - The nation's busiest airport dueled with gun rights advocates Tuesday over whether a new Georgia state law allows visitors to carry firearms at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
This is legal absurdity:
John Monroe, an attorney for the gun rights backers who filed the lawsuit, argued the Atlanta airport qualifies as public transportation. There are also restaurants in the terminal, which Monroe said should be accessible to gun-toting visitors under the new law.
I would say that with the recent Supreme Court ruling to overturn the D.C. law that requires trigger locks on guns to have a subtle effect on subsequent rulings. These kinds of safe guards on hand guns that will not be allowed because it infringes on the Second Amendment could be extended to the lawsuit filed by hand gun rights advocates in the Atlanta case just filed.
When will this fatal fetish with guns and America? This delusion with guns, freedom, and feeling that you are "independent" of government interference is deadly and laughable since the most vociferous advocates are firmly embedded in the conservative movement. So there is a suspension of disbelief with respect to how much government can intrude on your privacy (meaning that they support the Bush administration's "War on Terror"'s surveillence programs on Americans) and on having a hand gun to "protect" yourself.
What will it be...freedom to carry hand guns or letting big government into your private life in the name of "fighting terror"?
However, Gun control laws in themselves were NOT struck down. "Justice" Scalia, declared quite clearly that those laws are still in effect:
"Nothing in our opinion," Justice Scalia said, "should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."
Based on that opinion, I'm sure that Atlanta will defend it's law stating that the Airport is a "sensitive" place, and therefore any restriction is constitutional.
I'm sure the Gundamentalists will flail about filing numerous lawsuits challenging EVERY gun law on the books...and they'll lose all of them, except the ones that have an absolute ban on ownership.
Let 'em...if they spend all of their time filing these dumb lawsuits, and don't spend their time trying to remove science textbooks from the classrooms, remove a woman's right to choose, or invent a bogus reason to impeach the next Democratic President....