Posted on 07/02/2008 5:09:02 AM PDT by angkor
About 45 minutes ago, Fox News DC broadcast a live interview with morning anchor Bob Sellers and a DC councilman whose name I didn't get.
During the 2 or 3 minute discussion, the councilman asserted several times that last week's SCOTUS ruling somehow reinforced or supported the city law requiring that gun in the home be "disabled" and equipped with gun locks.
To which Fox's Sellers (who lives in Virginia) kind of shook his head and repeated that assertion as if to ask for clarification. I'm guessing that - like most of us - Sellers understood the SCOTUS ruling to say (as it does,, verbatim) "...the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional." (page 3)
Sellers could definitely have been more aggressive and held this councilman to the mat, but unfortunately the interview remained dithering on the councilman's rambling and incoherent assertion that "disabled with trigger locks" features of DC law were defensible and still operative.
My observation was that Sellers also was astonished by this councilman's gross distortion of the SCOTUS ruling, but that he didn't want to turn the cheery morning show into a hardcore smackdown (which would have been easy). If I'm not mistaken has asked the councilman to clarify his statement THREE separate times, to no avail.
I think think the councilman was Phil Mendelson but am not certain.
In a democracy, you get the government you deserve. Guess who this drooling moron will probably support and vote for as POTUS this November!
“I think think the councilman was Phil Mendelson but am not certain.”
More than likely.....
“D.C. Council Judiciary Chairman Phil Mendelson will hold a hearing Wednesday on the topic.
“The Supreme Court’s decision last week was regrettable. Nonetheless, it is the law of the land,” Mendelson said.
“We are moving quickly to respond to the Supreme Court as well as protect our regulatory scheme,” he said.”
http://www.nbc4.com/politics/16762530/detail.html
As far as DC is concerned, they better wake up because as soon as SCOTUS handed down the ruling the laws in DC banning handguns and requiring dissembling rifles and shotguns were null and void. DC residents can now, right now, go out and buy guns and put their weapons back together and unlock those triggers.
Lawsuits swamping DC are headed their way and fast.
Why are libs so interested in honest citizens being unable to defend themselves?
because without guns (or big dogs or men in the home)... people feel unprotected and will be more likely to vote for more police control and bigger government to 'protect' them
Because a citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.
It flies against every belief they hold dear. To a liberal, a citzen killing a bad guy is on par with how we would view an Aztec cutting out the heart of a baby and offering it to the rain god, Tlaloc.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m sure the hardcore reality and implications of the simple assertion that the RKBA is an INDIVIDUAL uninfringeable right has not fully sunk in,
because they have so deluded themselves over the years that THEY were, and should be, in charge of everyone’s lives and livelihoods.
Combine the individual right with a future ruling that some law imposes an “undue burden” on that right, and voila! you get unlimited abortion... er, gun ownership and carry rights.
(Perhaps we can get a court to rule that those who can’t afford to exercise this right should be subsidized by the taxpayer... /sarc)
““We are moving quickly to respond to the Supreme Court as well as protect our regulatory scheme,” he said.””
So he’s trying to protect his power base but not the people he supposedly represents.
You got it -
independence from the collective is anathema to a liberal.
Quoting Michele (AAQQTODB)
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
Which is why I've thoroughly enjoyed their lamentations this past week. The gun-grabbing libtards brought this SCOTUS decision on themselves. For years, they've lied about the 2nd Amendment so often, they thought they could actually pull it off by the sheer momentum of their deceit. And they almost did.
Thankfully, freedom and liberty won.
The constitution was written to ensure that we would have guns to protect ourselves from government but this American Idol dumbed down public school society that we find ourselves drowning in will eventually drag the rest of us into the totalitarian government that the libtards desire.
Nice.
We need to start filing “contempt of Court” and Title 18 Section 241/242 charges against these morons.
What greater government "infringement" can there possibly be than to disable a citizen's means of defense.
"[if by the denial of rights] death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death."
I haven't ignored the ammo, either.
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