DC’s response to Heller
DC presser here:
In addition, although the Court struck the safe storage provision on the ground that it was too broadly written, firearms at home should be kept either unloaded and disassembled or else locked except for use in self-defense in emergencies.
Uhm, you were just told no to that one. Don’t piss the court off.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
‘Uhm, you were just told no to that one.”
Not exactly, “safe storage” provisions were struck down as a legal requirement but still OK as a suggestion.
More troubling in the DC response is the claim that the banning of semi-auto is still OK law, not truck out. Can someone explain how a seven-shot Walther semi-auto is more dangerous to the owner than a six-shot S&W revolver?
June 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
They will lose on that one as well most likely.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
“Don’t piss the court off.”
“How many divisions does Scalia have?”
(Without apology to Josef Stalin)
June 26th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
For the next few months, probably about 3 million people worth.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I would believe that when I saw it.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
There is no point in trying to engage those people rationlly. Being bullies by nature, and understanding social relations as dominance games, I do think the only argument which’ll work with them, is well, force, since they are invincible to reason.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
That he doesn’t have 3 million people that’d vote for whatever he said? Unlike Stalin, D.C.’s government doesn’t have much of a standing army. All they have is people that’d follow their vote. At this point, I have little doubt Scalia could get more people’s attention than anything Fenty could rant about.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
“Don’t piss the court off”
Oh, no, you’re wrong. We want Fenty to piss the court off. Please. We would gain ground every time he did so, and got slapped for it.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:15 am
“…semiautomatic handguns generally remain illegal and may not be registered.”
WTF??? The Heller decision affirms that the people have a right to keep and bear those arms which are in common usage. This isn’t 1930. Semiauto handguns ARE the standard self defense weapon.
These people can go to hell. Soon I hope.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Education, reasonable discourse, appeal to humanitarian principles, morality, respect and call to honor are all wasted on that ilk. The only thing that really settles the question when dealing with that kind is force.
Nobody is really ready to engage in it at this point. Us, because we are basically peacable and reasonable and have trouble wrapping our heads around the truth that some are immune to reason, logic, and morality. Them, because they are sociopaths who want what they want and don’t care what atrocities they must perform to get it.
We don’t really believe we will win this battle on the moral and principled plane through debate, but we hope so hard that it is so that we suspend disbelief.
They don’t commit the atrocities necessary because they are not guaranteed to win the physical confrontation that those atrocities might foment. Though Waco and other events have made them much more hopeful of consequentless atrocity commission. They just aren’t as confident as they would like to be before embarking openly and enthusiastically on that course. That is the only brake on their desire to do so. That brake will eventually fail.
Force will be used to decide the issue. It is unavoidable because of the nature of our oppositiion. The only real question is will their force be met with force. But force will decide the issue.
Due to my age and state of health, I may not be around to participate, but when it happens, remember where you heard it. You will find I waa not as crazy as you had hoped.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
ABout DC claiming semi-auto handguns are still banned: seems that under DC law they are machine guns!
“Pistols” still banned