Miami Herald Misses Mark in Editorial

Another editorial that misses the point in the SCOTUS ruling. This time it is from The Miami Herald, which writes:

“Where is the line to be drawn between the right to own a gun and the public’s right to feel safe? The majority of justices at least acknowledged that laws to deny gun ownership to felons and people with mental illness and to keep places like schools and government buildings gun-free are reasonable.”

Where is the line? Clearly, the justices see the line! Most law-abiding gun owners agree that guns shouldn’t be in the hands of felons and those with mental illness. We can see this, so why the need to question where the line should be?

As with so many other editorials, the editors miss the point of the ruling in McDonald vs. The City of Chicago. Again, this was about the rights of an elderly man to defend his home with a handgun, something that was banned in Chicago. So we ask the editors of The Miami Herald, where do you draw the line when it comes to the rights for a man to own a gun and feel safe? You seem to think these are mutually exclusive when in fact to Mr. Otis McDonald there is no line.