One of the better takes on the Heller decision comes from San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, who wrote in part:
In the end, the court settled a matter that had been ruled by sensibilities. When fashionable people can afford to hire security guards or live in gated communities, they tend to think of self-defense as a neurotic obsession of the gauche and overwrought. They don’t think they need handguns, therefore no one needs handguns. They are undeterred by research that shows that their gun bans don’t reduce crime, because it only matters that they mean well.
So they come to believe that they have the right to deny other less enlightened people the right to choose to defend their very homes – because they long ago blurred the line between a legal right and personal desire.
