Somewhere in Queens, Bernie Goetz is smiling: Disregarding half of the Second Amendment, contrary history and common sense, the United States Supreme Court struck down a century-old New York statute that requires "proper cause" to issue a permit to carry a handgun in public. In the name of self-defense, the court has done the indefensible and turned America's fourth largest state, and its most populous city, into a free-fire zone.