AN UPDATE:

Cambridge police have now dropped the charge against the Harvard scholar, calling the incident, “regrettable and unfortunate.”

For some of our readers who think St. Louis is alone when it comes to tension between the races, here’s a story from Cambridge, Mass., as food for thought.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a prominent black scholar at Harvard University — and he was arrested at his own home last week after reports of a break-in. His lawyer says he was the victim of racial profiling; police aren’t saying anything past what was in the written report about the incident.

Henry Louis Gates

 Supporters of Gates,…

People have a right to own guns, plain and simple, according to a majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday. Still, the justices are less clear about whether the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns should remain.

Arguments on D.C.’s gun ban could bring the high court’s first interpretation of the Second Amendment since it was ratified 216 years ago.

According to today’s story:

The central question before the court on Tuesday was whether the right to keep and bear arms applies to individuals or only to states and militias. At issue was the constitutionality of the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C….