MICKEY KAUS wonders why D.C. didn’t back down in the Heller case: “How stupid were the gun-controllers in the D.C government to persist in their cause? The result may be a ruling that after 200 years actually gives meaning to distressingly clear language of the Amendment. Couldn’t gun-controllers from the rest of the country have talked them out of it?” I believe that there were some efforts to get the ordinance in question repealed, but obviously they weren’t enough.