DC city council ignoring Supreme Court ruling: Discharge petition filed on gun ban repeal
Posted in Doing Something by R Lee Wrights on July 31st, 2008 by GOA staff
In open defiance of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Washington D.C. gun control law, the City Council passed an “emergency” law that keeps in place almost all of the law that was ruled unconstitutional.
For example, though the Court ruled specifically that the city’s ban on handguns violated the Second Amendment, most handguns still cannot be registered because D.C. bureaucrats classify semi-automatic pistols as “machine guns.”
Even Dick Heller, who brought the case against Washington’s gun ban, was rejected when he tried to register his handgun because any “bottom loading” firearm is a “machine gun” according to the D.C. police.
Similarly, while the Court found that “the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a “trigger lock” is unconstitutional, the city kept in place the “lock up your safety” law unless the resident is in immediate danger.
The D.C. Council is thus rendering the Supreme Court victory for gun rights meaningless, while leaving residents defenseless.
Women’s advocates and the state Attorney General’s office are criticizing a new court ruling which will make it harder for women to get restraining orders against their male partners. Star-Ledger columnist Fran Wood, in her recent op-ed “Don’t soften protection for women,” called New Jersey’s Domestic Violence Prevention Act “one of the best statutes in the country,” and said the new ruling could “diminish the ability of domestic violence victims to get the protection they need.”
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today that the decision by officials in Wilmette, IL to repeal their 19-year-old handgun ban is “a victory of substance over symbolism.”
You might even think they exist to protect you and your inherent, unalienable rights, that their primary goal is to uphold the Constitution for these united states of America.
Who was it that actually said, “Politics makes strange bedfellows?” Furthermore, could there be a better example of the adage than the political day in which we live? I can’t image how. The transition of a political party has unfolded before our very eyes; and unfortunately, it plays before the international audience as an ancient Greek tragedy upon the stage of American politics.
Emboldened by a Supreme Court victory in McConnell v. FEC, upholding nearly every McCain-Feingold amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act, the “reform” industry seeks to trick Republicans into supporting further restrictions on advocacy group participation in our democracy. The purported targets of these new restrictions are newly created section 527 groups, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, whose announced purpose is defeating President Bush. Republicans should not take this bait.
As you may have heard by now, at some meeting about traffic tickets, some bureaucrat commented that it was like the tickets were disappearing into a “black hole.” Well, a moron with no grip on reality took offense at that. Why? Because he decided it was a racist comment. And it made national news.
Engraved Model 442 Will Recognize District of Columbia vs. Heller Decision 
When President Bush promised to prop up the failing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he authorized a transfer of wealth from those who live from paycheck to paycheck to those who have enough money to play the stock market. These lending institutions are owned by stockholders, who saw their shares plummet to lows of 6.7 and 5.0 respectively before they were promised taxpayer bailout. After Bush’s announcement, the stocks recovered to 13.4 and 9.2 respectively, making over 100% profit for speculators and saving investors from further stock free-fall.
