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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 09/30/2004 9:27:56 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Washington -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal virtually all of the District of Columbia's gun laws, urged by gun rights groups to deliver a victory before the November election over the vehement objections of Washington leaders who denounced what they called a historic violation of home rule.
Voting 250-171, the House approved the D.C Personal Protection Act, which would end the District's ban on handguns and semiautomatic weapons, roll back registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms and decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and carrying a gun in one's home or workplace.
The bill also would prohibit the District's elected mayor and council from passing gun limits that exceed federal law or "discourage ... the private ownership or use of firearms."
The bill goes to the Senate, where it has almost no chance of passage. A similar bill is bottled up in committee, and Majority Leader Bill Frist, R- Tenn., has indicated that with little more than a week before Congress recesses to campaign, only noncontroversial measures may come to the floor.
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Wuss.
Wusses = Senate
God help any Republican who votes against this restoration of the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms. They'll have shown that they support only Democrat causes, not ours. And it'll be high time to vote out those RINOs.
The problem is that it would have to be slow and steady. At least six years of work with twelve being a more likely figure. But the Senate is proving to be a major obstacle.
Consider the Majority Leader. Says it all. Nothing from the Senate "leadership" apart from bending over and letting the Democrats have their way.
They may as well be wearing powdered wigs dressed in lace and taking snuff...
imo
Funny thing: If I remember correctly, 52 House democrats voted to repeal the ban!
Figure THAT one out!
When the people in the "home" are certifiably out of their friggin' minds, some violation of their rules is warranted and even desirable.
The District of Plutonia is upset...again. Good Lord, what a bunch of whiners.
DC has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation and the city is still a stinking morass of death and murder. If you wish to be shot-to-death before you are 20 years old, just go to one of DC's tougher wards and you just might get your wish.
The District also has the highest high school drop out rate in the country(I believe somewhere around 50-percent) while boasting the highest spending on public education in the nation per student. The city also has, if not the highest, then certainly one of the highest infant mortality rates in America.
Since home rule went into effect in the 1970s, the District has been reduced to a third world nation. If not for the federal government and Ward 3 and federal reservations with the city, DC would be Haiti on our shores.
Yes, home rule's gone just fine.
Yes, and as you say it will take a long time.
The pubbies will not offer any pro 2A senate candidates unless they have to. This year with the Frenchurian, they don't have to.
The "Osama approved" candidate will probably lose, maybe bigtime, except Kalifornia. If so The Clintons will run the Rat party till 2008, so pubbies will not have to offer 2A candidates. If Hitlerey loses in '08, the Rats may flip 180 and go patriotic in an attempt to reverse the trend of their losses. If so, Pubbies may be forced to replace RINOs with Pubbie 2A candidates.
I don't want to wait that long, but, as others have pointed out on this thread, what a peasant like me wants is not considered.
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Let Freedom Ring,
Yeah, the Washington Toast runs the Comical by remote control.
But it has to be done.
Senators are simply too secure in their clubby little Olympian seats to worry about what the rabble want or what the Constitution demands. They can ignore both for long, long stretches of time.
Yes, home rule's gone just fine.
What they needed was less government, but they got more.
The new plantation, DC.
Both points well founded.
I have a Congressman who "represents" me (ha), Tom Lantos, he never stops running for office.
What are you supposed to do when the ammunition is used? De-register it?
decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and carrying a gun in one's home or workplace
I guess that I would be a criminal for having an unregistered weapon in my private home. I'm glad I don't live in D.C.
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