Posted on 02/19/2007 9:34:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One definition of a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged in the park. Perhaps, one definition of a conservative politician is a one-time liberal who's entire constituency has been mugged in the park.
Since when?!
Other than that bit right there I would tend to agree with him.
Good move by the gun grabber. There is the little peskey law suit Parker vs DC that probably is not going to go the gungrabbers way. A straight clean 2nd amendment case. He is afraid
And thanks for the info- I'll be reading this later.
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
Thanks for helping as I am computer ignorant. Ignore my bad typing I really can spell. I know should have used spell check. At least I try to use words unlike the young persons who talk in computer speak.
Ah yes.....Imagine Marion's Washington....
A 55gal drum of crack cocaine and a pallet of weapons at every major intersection....
Let the games begin.
Semper Fi
Did he stop doing crack?
Last June, after living in DC for only 6 months, I had my iPod stolen right out of my hand two doors down from my house in North West DC (the supposedly safe quadrent). There were 5-6 cops on the tiny block at the time because a bunch of highschoolers were brawling on the opposite corner. As I ran after the kid (teenager) who took it, a cop caught up alongside of me running and told me to wait. 45 seconds later he returned to tell me the kid got away. Never heard from it again.
I'm pretty sure I hear gun shots from window about once a week. I don't know what a gun shot in an urban area from a distance sounds like, but I doubt people are dropping 2x4's at 1-3am.
I'm very suspicious of Marion introducing this bill, but if it lets law abiding citizens to own (and maybe carry - the article didn't say) handguns, then I'm all for it and may take advantage myself.
Third time this week.
If we're exchanging common sense slogans, I like quoting Peter Ventoklis: "Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out just because I might yell, 'FIRE!' in a crowded theatre." (Found in Claire Wolfe's "101 Things to do before the Revolution.")
Also relevant to DC's current gun ban is the Dakota Sioux saying "When you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to disout." (Found it in Claire Wolfe's sequil "Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet).")
Wow! A rare glimmer of common sense breaks through the darkness!
Criminals are by definition people who do not obey laws. Only a moron would expect them to obey gun laws when they routinely break any other law that they don't like.
You have Freepmail.
Uhhh. Are pigs flying?
Own for how long? Did you read the fine print?
...would allow D.C. residents with no prior criminal history three months to register handguns before the current ban is reinstated and higher penalties for unregistered weapons kick in.
Yep, registration - under threat of even more severe penalties - would be a WONDERFUL deal for law-abiding gun owners...
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