After months of claiming he had insufficient information to express an opinion on the District of Columbia`s gun law, Barack Obama noted with apparent approval Thursday that the Supreme Court ruled that the 32-year ban on handguns "went too far." But what would he have said had the high court`s 5 to 4 majority gone the other way and affirmed the law? Obama`s strategists can only thank swing Justice Anthony Kennedy for enabling Justice Antonin Scalia`s majority opinion to take the Democratic presidential candidate off the hook.
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