Here's a tickler for y'all...
My wife's carry.
And who runs D.C? Liberals, of course. Liberal govt = fear and frustration. When will the people of D.C. learn their lesson.
bttt
Here's a tickler for y'all...
My wife's carry.
“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.
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.
Fascinating article. When “Parker” becomes as famed as “Miranda”, this tale will be an important part of the history.
Here’s a startling paragraph from the article:
‘Some black neighbors said that the police didn’t pay much attention to the area and patrolled more vigilantly on the other side of Lincoln Park, which was more affluent and white. Parker said some even told her that they were initially disappointed when they saw she was the home buyer. “I had some of my neighbors say, ‘I had hoped you were white.’ They had hoped it had been somebody who was white, somebody who would really step in and put the fear of God in the drug dealer and stop some of the nonsense going on,” she recalled.’
"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
Of note: Parker, and four other plaintiffs, lost the case for lack of standing - because she did not file for a permit which, by law, would never be granted.
This is something lost in the bustle about Parker. Only plaintiff Heller actually applied for the in-home-possession permit, knowing full well that by law the permit would not be granted, even to an upstanding citizen (himself an off-duty cop) - and he was of course rejected. (Why DC maintains an office for processing permit applications which shall, by law, _never_ be granted, I don't understand.) Only by having that rejection in-hand did the DC Circuit grant him standing ... and explicitly denied standing to the other 5 plaintiffs.
If the court had said that, they'd be wrong. But they didn't, they said the Second Amendment protects the right of individual citizens to keep loaded guns in their homes. Big Difference. Government can protect, respect, or violate the right, but it can't give it, nor can it take it away.
The liberal leftist government of DC can’t and won’t help protect citizens.
Since our #1 obligation in life is to preserve the self, we have an obligation to defend ourselves. So it is morally right and justified to own a gun (even if it’s illegal) for self defense.
Politicians however (as we all know) are frequently intimidated by firearms. Not only is this not a bad thing, it's exactly the point, and is why the framers enshrined protection of the right in the constitution in the first place. The second amendment is one of the "checks and balances" we hear so much about, and it's great that it's looking like it's going to be seen that way again.
In fact, it's the politicians who are the most anti-gun who are by no coincidence, the ones we most desperately need to bring back in line. We need to remind them that they work for us, and not the other way around.