[JohnPierce]

This is my latest article. In it, I point out how ironic it is that Helmke and the Brady Campaign are responsible for DC not getting a voting seat in Congress even though the changes to the District's gun laws are inevitable.

With any luck, people will remember who it was that slammed the door on them. :)

[Paladin2]

How does granting DC the rights of a State not require a Constitutional Amendment?

[cripplecreek]

I don’t care whether they vote for easing gun laws or not, they still don’t get a vote.

[agere_contra]

DC is a state now?

Not hardly.

[Vigilanteman]

There is an easy and logical way for DC residents to get a voting representative in congress. It is called retrocession and Virginia used it to absorb their portion of the District in 1847.

Maryland could easily do the same with a minimal portion of government buildings (where nobody lives) clustered around the National Mall excluded.

Such a move would give the Democrats one extra vote in the House of Representatives. The only reason this doesn't happen is that they prefer their automatic three extra electoral votes in presidential elections which would be ended by retrocession and repeal of the 23rd amendment.

[pnh102]

With any luck, people will remember who it was that slammed the door on them. :)

Doubtful. These are the same idiots who voted 93% for 0bama and then whined when he, as promised, shut down the DC school voucher program.