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Freedom from fear is also a right (Marion Barry says suspend DC Gun Control!!)
The Washington DC Examiner ^
| February 19, 2007
Posted on 02/19/2007 9:34:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/19/2007 10:44:32 PM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; kristinn; Trueblackman; trooprally
None other than former Mayor Marion Barry, now representing Ward 8 on the D.C. Council, is waving the white flag of surrender by introducing legislation to provide potential victims a limited window of opportunity to arm themselves in self defense.
WRONG. Barry is the only one NOT surrendering.
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posted on
02/19/2007 10:50:07 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Did he stop doing crack? Well, he stopped getting caught..
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:00:01 PM PST
by
Drammach
("If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: Skibane
It SOUNDED so un-Barry like...good catch.
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:18:15 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Barry’s proposal, which would allow D.C. residents with no prior criminal history three months to register handguns before the current ban is reinstated and ,,,,,A 3 month window?
If I move to DC after that I am SOL?
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:45:53 PM PST
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/19/2007 11:54:41 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
To: BostonianRightist
from experience sounds similar to fireworks
To: philetus
Am I wrong for being suspicious about this whole thing?
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posted on
02/20/2007 12:22:05 AM PST
by
CT102ndInfSister
(Please pray for the soldiers of the 102nd serving proudly in Afghanistan.)
To: CT102ndInfSister
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posted on
02/20/2007 12:35:43 AM PST
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: Skibane
...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. I suppose if I had to be living in DC, I might figure the cost of a cheap but decent handgun was a worthwhile investment for the protection it would offer in the months I could keep it before the government decided it needed to steal it.
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posted on
02/20/2007 12:51:04 AM PST
by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
To: river rat
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posted on
02/20/2007 2:13:15 AM PST
by
sig226
(How to argue global warming and the Democrat Culture of Corruption - see my profile.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A more conservative position than Giuliani!!!
To: Skibane
...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...
Indeed. Until they let CCW tourists carry, it will still be a crime hellhole.
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posted on
02/20/2007 6:53:33 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Methinks this has far more to do with the
Parker case being pushed thru the courts. By timing the "amnesty" to coincide with the next deliberation and ruling on
Parker's appeals, they can defuse the challenge to DC's insane prohibitions by saying "see? you can register arms, so the case is dismissed as moot" - then slam the window shut, forcing Parker et al to start from scratch, stopped by precident of their own failed lower-court rulings.
This isn't about resisting thugs.
This is about stopping a devastating legal ruling ("the 2nd Amendment means what it says") before it happens.
DC is desperate to keep the CCW ban firmly in place - and if that means lifting it briefly so they can tighten it down harder, they will.
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posted on
02/20/2007 10:20:32 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Hardly. Barry is playing hardball with grenades.
The Parker case threatens to dismantle the entire DC ban; this amnesty is a strategy to defuse that case and put an even harsher ban in place.
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posted on
02/20/2007 10:23:17 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Barry just wants to shoot the b**ch if she sets him up again.....
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posted on
02/20/2007 10:59:00 AM PST
by
NRA1995
(They should've shredded Saddam Hussein...)
To: TYVets
If I move to DC after that I am SOL? If you have to move to DC before, after or ever you will be SOL. DC has been the playground of liberal social engineering for over 40 years. It is "fubar"-ed beyond all hope. Warning to all DC residents: LEAVE ASAP!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did I see a pig fly by my window???
To: Joe Brower; traviskicks; Dead Corpse
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posted on
02/20/2007 12:59:40 PM PST
by
jmc813
(Rudy Giuliani as the Republican nominee is like Martin Luther being Pope.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
which 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. Here's an idea some of us have been working on. RKBA as an unalienable Right which shall not be infringed. 95% of the folks out there are law abiding and wouldn't commit a crime against anyone else even if we made nukes legal. Why not just give them their Natural Rights back and let our now armed 280 million some odd army clean up the 10-20 million criminals in their own neighborhoods.
Heck, we might even round up some jihadi's our idiot government can't seem to find that they are fairly certain are already here.
We'll need a snappy name to market it... how about, "It's the Constitutional way, stupid!".
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posted on
02/20/2007 1:56:39 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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