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DC leaders preparing to rewrite gun laws
AP ^ | 9/17/2014 | BEN NUCKOLS

Posted on 09/17/2014 2:31:29 AM PDT by markomalley

District of Columbia leaders are preparing to rewrite the city’s gun laws to address a judge’s ruling that struck down a ban on carrying handguns outside the home in the nation’s capital.

Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Council members plan to announce emergency legislation to address the ruling on Wednesday. The council would vote on the bill next week.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: secondamendment

1 posted on 09/17/2014 2:31:29 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Article I §8: "The Congress shall have the power...To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States,..."

It's time to do away with this fraud of a "government" for DC.

2 posted on 09/17/2014 2:55:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: markomalley

Wonder if Vegas will take a proposition bet on how badly the DC Council will screw this up? This crew could screw up on making a peanut butter sandwich.


3 posted on 09/17/2014 3:57:44 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

The answer is actually quite simple. D.C. started out as a square, set at a 45 degree angle to the lines of latitude and longitude. In the early 19th century, Congress voted to give back to Virginia that portion of land which Virginia had given up to form D.C. So, simply give Maryland back its portion of D.C., minus the land and buildings now used by the federal government. But that will never pass Congress once you realize that the real push for D.C. statehood is all about generating two more permanently Democrat seats in the Senate and one or two more permanently Democrat seats in the House.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 4:23:21 AM PDT by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least..)
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To: markomalley

Are liberal even capable of writing laws? It seems they just have a judge or bureaucrat make up laws as they go along and then have a police force that selectively enforces what they declare is the law?


5 posted on 09/17/2014 4:30:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: markomalley

So it is an emergency that people living in DC are being allowed to exercise their right to self defense? Ohno! ;-) Addressing and correcting that is obviously an emergency.


6 posted on 09/17/2014 4:54:02 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: markomalley

We will ignore your laws the same way this @$$wipe in the white house ignores the laws.


7 posted on 09/17/2014 5:18:27 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: markomalley

Will they just copy some other city’s stupid laws that have not yet been overturned by a conservative judge?


8 posted on 09/17/2014 7:40:53 AM PDT by CPOSharky (I was born with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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