Last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that Washington, DC’s strict handgun ban violated the Second Amendment has triggered a nationwide debate. A devastated Mayor Adrian Fenty of Washington, DC (murder capital of 2002) told Newsweek that “putting more guns in the city’s borders leads to more crime”; in Chicago (murder capital of 2003), Mayor Richard Daley called the court’s ruling “very frightening” and vowed to fight any attempt to invalidate the city’s ban; in Philadelphia (murder rate of one per day in 2007), columnist Jill Porter writes, “As of yesterday, 130 of the city’s 158 homicide victims were killed with guns”; in Houston (379 murders in in 2006), the Chronicle hailed the decision: “This landmark decision was a victory for Texas and for all Americans.” A headline at the Denver Post: “Gun Ruling Splits Coloradans.” The DC gun ban has divided columnists at the hometown Washington Post, and the conversation continues.