More on Plan B
Post Heller, DC is looking to erect as many barrier to gun ownership as it can. Here’s some commentary on their ridiculous proposals:
The registration is explicitly “may issue”.
Like NYC, they can delay or obstruct by never giving you a form (say, after the spotlight has moved from D.C.).
The currently described as “written” test must be passed with 75% proficiency, contents and nature now or in the future unspecified.
Along with the “reasonable” fees.
Only the registrant can carry the pistol from room to room.
Washington D.C.’s politicos haven’t quite embraced the meaning of the Second Amendment even in the post-Heller era.
The Other Biased Washington Paper’s Editorial:
Mayor Adrian Fenty yesterday proposed regulations for gun ownership rife with inconsistencies, unenforcable requirements and policies proven to be ineffective. It is clear that the D.C. Council has no intention of taking a reasonable track toward responsible gun ownership. Seemingly, City Hall intends to make it as difficult as possible for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.
“They’re doing everything that they can to not comply with the Supreme Court ruling,” said Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, who dismissed the proposed legislation as “a joke.”
“Unless the criminal calls you beforehand and lets you know he’s coming over … you’re going to be left defenseless,” Mr. Cox said.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Can we move the Capitol back to Philadelphia and then raze DC to the ground? On second thought, cancel that U-Haul reservation and get me the Caterpillar rental guy’s number.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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PopeSupreme Court? How many divisionshas hehave they got?”Sometimes the only effective solution is to just shoot the bastards. Doesn’t mean the next guy won’t be a bastard also, might he might be a little more circumspect.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
bob r: Before that, why not carve out an exception to the 3rd Amendment to allow the quartering of troops in the homes of politicians ^_^?
If Heller is our Brown vs. Board of Education, can the 101st be far behind?
July 17th, 2008 at 11:03 am
We need to stop playing games with these people. Up to 25 years in prison and up to a $25-million dollar fine for violating the Second Amendment. I’d rather have them lined up against a wall by the FBI and shot full of holes for treason – it would be an amusingly ironic fate for those who have misused government authority to deprive Americans of their gun rights to find themselves being shot to death by government agents. But I don’t think that the current Congress takes the American people seriously enough to be willing to endorse summary execution for traitors who kill our Constitutional rights, so I’ll settle for the usual fines and imprisonment approach, banal though it may be.
Despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, government officials still face greater penalties for an expired parking meter than for violating the Second Amendment. That really, really, really should change. Every government official, as part of his or her job, should be “read the riot act” with regard to the Second Amendment so that they know what it means and what the criminal penalties are for violating it. If we have to do something more tedious than putting them in front of government firing squads, then so be it, but let’s get going on giving the Second Amendment at least a tooth or two.