Some of us kinda-uncomfortable-with-the-ubiquity-of-guns-in-urban-settings types have been watching San Francisco, where voters passed a handgun ban by 58 a percent majority back in November. Well, the damned thing’s been overturned by a judge in the San Francisco Superior Court (the same court where one of those “activist motherfuckers,” as I believe Dick Cheney called ‘em over his evening shuffleboard game with Ann Coulter, ruled that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry back in March of 2005):

… [the judge] agreed with the National Rifle Association, which argued that Prop. H exceeded the powers of local government and intruded into an area regulated entirely by the state.

The NRA laid out their usual facile daisy-chains when it comes to people shooting each other, guns are obviously the solution, not the problem!—just like gin is the surefire way to battle my nascent alcoholism). But the judge seemed to lay a little groundwork for a statewide clampdown on handguns:

â€�California has an overarching concern in controlling gun use by defining the circumstances under which firearms can be possessed uniformly across the state, without having this statewide scheme contradicted or subverted by local policy,” the judge said.

The city attorney, of course, is planning to appeal, but all you let’s-ban-‘em-in-the-city types (I’m looking at you, Mr. Sanders) might want to begin refining your ban-`em-in-the-city arguments.

In other SFSC news:

A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded $46,000 yesterday to two men who were beaten by off-duty officers in a fight over fajitas in 2002.

Because fajitas don’t kill people…