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DC Gun Ban, Justice Kennedy, Grizzlies
Sorry Justice Kennedy. But you'd better have a bit more than a handgun to drop a grizzly. 
http://www.slate.com/id/2186853/
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Justice Kennedy thinks D.C. residents need protection—from grizzlies.
By Dahlia Lithwick
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at 7:31 PM ET
Is the D.C. gun law constitutional?
With all due respect to those who complain that the justices on the Supreme Court are too secretive, and for those who wish, perhaps, that David Souter was more like David "West Side Days Inn" Paterson, oral argument today in District of Columbia v. Heller offers up a bounty of alarming personal revelations. The least of which is that judges are completely political. But who knew that a case testing the scope of the Second Amendment's "right to bear arms" would smoke out a secret side of Justice Anthony Kennedy? A side so intensely protective of his right to self-defense that he makes—as I count—four separate references to some mythical "remote settler" who—at the time of the framing of the Constitution—would have needed a gun to "defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears, and grizzlies."
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