More recognition of the key salutary effect of the Heller decision on the gun violence prevention movement.

From Janet Pearson in the Tulsa World:

... What's next? Does the court's ruling mean gun controls are a thing of the past?

Hardly. Even nonlawyers would conclude after reading the Heller decision that, if anything, it enthusiastically embraces and endorses reasonable controls.

"All regulations that touch upon Second Amendment rights will get a well-deserved constitutional look. Instant background checks and felon-in-possession laws will survive. Laws meant to harass gun possession, while at best advancing only a hypothetical public benefit, will not," said Alan Gura, one of the attorneys who argued the Heller case before the Supreme Court, on reasononline.

There is general agreement that in addition to measures banning ownership by potentially dangerous people, laws governing licensing, commercial sales and probably concealed-carry measures likely will survive. That will be welcome news to many residents of the 40 states that have enacted concealed-carry laws.

Even the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence found a silver lining to Heller, noting that the "decision clearly suggests that other gun laws are entirely consistent with the Constitution."

Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center, said Heller means the gun lobby's "slippery slope" argument — that gun-control measures will eventually lead to an all-out ownership ban — is now moot.

Helmke added that "lifesaving proposals" such as background checks, limits on bulk sales and measures targeting corrupt dealers "can now be debated on their merits without distractions of fear or ideology."

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