The one thing I really don’t understand here is why the new D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is taking this all the way to the top after the D.C. Circuit Court ruled against him. He has sold himself as the man to turn the District around. He is doing a fairly good job in other areas. Why should he fight tooth-and-nail for gun control?
The only possible explanation is that the DNC and 527’s have ordered him to fight the case if this obviously ambitious, young Dem politician expects their help in the future.
Massa’ has spoken.
He believes in the ban (for whatever reason). He can’t just sit back and accept it being overturned without fighting it all the way. If he accepts the DC Circuit Court’s ruling, then the ban is gone; if he appeals the ruling, then there is at least a chance that it may be restored.