Re: #DC Mayor Tries To Keep Handguns Banned

KHavel wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:32:14 -0400, Bama Brian
> <bamaNOTbrian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> BeiselKeister wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:33:19 -0400, "Brian Carey"
>>> <careyb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "David Hartung" <d_hartung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>>> news:MuqdnSy9AvszF-7VnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Brian Carey wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377203,00.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WA****NGTON -  The Supreme Court's repeal of the ban on handguns in 
>>>>>> Wa****ngton, D.C., may be a boon for a segment of the firearms
industry 
>>>>>> whose last major windfall might have been in the heyday of the
Dirty 
>>>>>> Harry movies: those who make and sell revolvers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The court ruled that a blanket ban on handguns is unconstitutional,
but 
>>>>>> D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other Wa****ngton officials want to keep
in 
>>>>>> place a prohibition on semiautomatic handguns - those in which a
bullet 
>>>>>> clip is inserted into the gun's grip.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Such a ban would continue to outlaw 9-mm and other popular pistols
that 
>>>>>> are legal in most other places around the United States. And it
would 
>>>>>> make the classic six-shooter the only legal handgun in the
District.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't recall anything in the holding in Heller that separated 
>>>>>> semiautomatic handguns from revolvers.  That's because it isn't
there.
>>>>> Which means that the District will be back in court defending it's 
>>>>> unconstitutional acts yet again.
>>>> And it will lose. 
>>>>
>>> I think we'll let the court decide that.  You're not in charge.
>> Something that was said before about Heller.
>>
>> And DC will lose yet again, wasting another million dollars or so in DA

>> fees, appeals, and so on.  But then it's just the taxpayers' money
isn't 
>> it?  And the little people just don't count, do they?  And the DC mayor

>> and police chief's opinions trump the Constitution, don't they?
> 
> You don't decide that either.
> Everyone trumps the Constitution including Georgie Bush.  It's become
> a worthless and outdated do***ent, often badly misinterpreted.  
> We're not a free nation.  We're captive of a corrupt goverment and gun
> thugs.

Ah so.  Enjoy the anarchy in which you live.

-- 
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, 1863 - 1952

Cheers,
Bama Brian
Libertarian