The Supreme Court will finally review the 1975 Washington, D.C. gun law.

In our nation’s capitol for three decades all handguns have been illegal unless they had been registered before the law took effect. Grandfathered legal firearms must be kept unloaded and disassembled or, if assembled, disabled by some means. Originally, movement of firearms was allowed only on the owner’s property, but that was amended to prohibit even movement from room to room on the owner’s property.

This case is about only the right of an individual to keep a workable firearm in his domicile. It is not about carrying a firearm either concealed or openly in the streets of the city. It is simply asking to have the means to protect themselves and their families from intruders in their home.

Armed gays don't get bashed. We have a right to life; we have a right to defend that life and the lives of those around us, and we have a right to the means to do so. Without the means to defend one’s life, one has no effective right to life.