The Christian Science Monitor, always a good source for anti-gun babble, writes of the pending legislation to repeal the DC gun ban:

There are more than a few questions about the good senator’s beneficence. There’s the fact that the courts have decided that laws like the District’s, which prohibits handguns, aren’t any sort of violation of the Constitution, so we aren’t really being denied anything – that’s probably why the senator and her friends aren’t going to court to have the D.C. rules thrown out.

And the courts were wrong, it happens.

There’s the argument that putting more unregistered guns, including semiautomatic weapons, in people’s hands is probably not a sound way to increase safety in a densely populated, high-crime municipality.

I’m pretty sure this legislation would not increase unregistered guns as most guns in DC now (and there are a lot, if you watch the news) aren’t registered.

But perhaps the most confounding part of this proposal is this: why is the Republican Party, the party of states’ rights, deciding that in this case the federal government should supersede the will of the people living in the District? When did the GOP suddenly become the party that believes the federal government knows best?

Because the Constitution says shall not be infringed as opposed to, say, Congress shall make no law. And, last I checked, DC isn’t a state.

Posted in uncategorized on May 24th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |