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To: LindyBill who wrote (198981)	3/11/2007 10:18:47 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793858

The Brady Bunch has weighed in. Statement Of Brady President Paul Helmke On DC Circuit's Ruling Striking Down DC Handgun Law For Immediate Release: 03-09-2007 Contact Communications: (202) 289-7319 Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Washington, D.C. – Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement: “The 2-1 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun law is judicial activism at its worst. By disregarding nearly seventy years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, two Federal judges have negated the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia and deprived this community of a gun law it enacted thirty years ago and still strongly supports. “This ruling represents the first time in American history that a Federal appeals court has struck down a gun law on Second Amendment grounds. While acknowledging that ‘reasonable restrictions’ to promote ‘the government’s interest in public safety’ are permitted by the Second Amendment, the two-judge majority substituted its policy preferences for those of the elected representatives of the District of Columbia. ” bradycampaign.org