[2ndDivisionVet]

Wow!! This is a shocker!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

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.

[perfect stranger]

Freedom from violence is a fundamental civil right....

Since when?!

Other than that bit right there I would tend to agree with him.

[therut]

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

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very afraid. I thas already been heard. They were trying to deny standing like they always do but low and behold just a few days ago the USSC in another case that effects this case seems to give them direct standing. Look on the blod called TRIGGERFINGER if you want to read up on the case.

[umgud]

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.

[river rat]

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

[Paleo Conservative]

Did he stop doing crack?

[BostonianRightist]

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.

[Carry_Okie]

I'm rubbing my eyes, again.

Third time this week.

[epow]

. Everybody but the criminals are abiding by the city’s gun control laws.

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.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Uhhh. Are pigs flying?

[KoRn]

[traviskicks]

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[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

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.

[TYVets]

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?

[philetus]

Maybe he's just high.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

A more conservative position than Giuliani!!!

[ctdonath2]

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.

[NRA1995]

Barry just wants to shoot the b**ch if she sets him up again.....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Did I see a pig fly by my window???

[jmc813]

"Holy Crap!" alert