Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that sought to ensure that anyone convicted of a crime of domestic violence assault — including a misdemeanor — would be barred from owning guns. The law was enacted in 1996 to close a loophole that allowed people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence offenses to own guns. Two men from Maine were prosecuted under this law for possessing firearms after being convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors. They argued that

This originally was published in the Harrisburg Patriot-News on September 9, 2015. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a tragedy that shocks the conscience and rattles a community's sense of security and serenity. Shortly before noon on Labor Day, just outside a popular Mount Gretna ice cream parlor, Patrick Derr, 47, of Richland, fatally shot h