Liberals are having a great and painful hernia today over the striking down of the D.C. ban on handguns in homes. This tells you just how good this decision is for the city. Criminals thinking about breaking into a home will now have to add one additional factor into their calculation: The owner or renter of the home may indeed have a weapon with which to repel them.

It's a great decision by the court, one which should have come long ago. But better late than never. Law abiding citizens seeking to protect their homes will now have the ability to lawfully possess an equal amount of force to counter those seeking to do them physical harm.

On a related matter, this should be helpful to Rudy Giuliani. With the apparent lessening of the threat to law abiding gun owners (this decision, as well as no recent major Democrat efforts at punitive gun control as occurred in the 1990's), Rudy's past gun control efforts may not figure as prominently in many Republican primary voters' minds as had been originally thought.