Here's a tickler for y'all...
My wife's carry.
Posted on 04/08/2007 8:46:57 PM PDT by freespirited
Shelly Parker did everything she could to keep her home safe. She owned a dog. She called police when she suspected illegal activity on her block. She installed a security camera on her front window.
Her crime-fighting efforts made an impression. One night, Parker found her car window smashed and saw rocks scattered around the vehicle. She felt it was retaliation....
A police officer gave her some advice.
Get a gun, he told her.
Parker later joined five other residents who took the government to court in an effort to overturn the city's 31-year-old handgun ban. In March, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in their favor, striking down key elements of the statute by a 2 to 1 vote. ... the judges said the Second Amendment gives residents the right to keep loaded guns in their homes.
The lawsuit bearing her name, Parker vs. the District of Columbia, probably will make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. attorney general's office said that the city will file a petition tomorrow to have the case reheard before the full Court of Appeals. The gun law is expected to remain intact while proceedings unfold.
The court's decision has been hailed by gun-rights organizations and others who consider themselves staunch defenders of constitutional rights. But D.C. officials and gun-control advocates fear wiping out the ban will proliferate violence. Some have argued that the half-dozen residents who filed the lawsuit are outside the norm in a city once labeled the nation's murder capital.
For Parker, the court ruling is a victory for residents who believe a firearm provides protection when fighting for safe communities. "The only thing between me and somebody entering my home are harsh words," Parker said. "That's all I have."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And who runs D.C? Liberals, of course. Liberal govt = fear and frustration. When will the people of D.C. learn their lesson.
As you read through the article all of the liberals simply say , more or less: “I’m afraid of guns so they should be illegal.” If we banned everything that liberals were afraid of we’d no longer have a constitution (afraid of guns, afraid of free speech, afraid of Christians/conservative Jews, afraid of SUVs, etc.)
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“As you read through the article all of the liberals simply say , more or less: “I’m afraid of guns so they should be illegal.” If we banned everything that liberals were afraid of we’d no longer have a constitution (afraid of guns, afraid of free speech, afraid of Christians/conservative Jews, afraid of SUVs, etc.)”
Well, I’m afraid of freaking liberals. Can you blame me? Damn, I surrounded.
ping for later read
Here's a tickler for y'all...
My wife's carry.
Banning liberals... Now there’s an idea!
Now that is a fine looking tribute to the Second Amendment
P232. Very elegant.
I just wish modern firearms had very small and elegant maker’s marks on them, rather than giant stampings or laser etchings of the make and model.
Czech vz.82
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photo courtesy of Pearce Grips
“The success stories of self-defense are few and far between compared to the accidents and negligence and guns being stolen and ending up in crimes and homicides,” he said.” (from the article)
Even if that were true....which it certainly is not, it does not diminish the fact that a person has the RIGHT to own a gun and defend themselves.
Dollars to donut shops the way “he” is counting this is by incidents of people actually shooting back at an attacker. Much more commonly, simply showing the gun suffices and the would be attacker flees.
It’s beyond me why politicians think they have the right to tell a citizen that he or she has no right to use a gun for protection.
Definitely and it's even better to go on and read the comments, all of which ar pro-2d Amendment. I was surprised to see so much good sense from DC residents.
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