Comments on: Washington Post’s Constitution http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/07/25/washington-posts-constitution/ Where There's Snow, There's Firepower Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:09:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rob K http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/07/25/washington-posts-constitution/#comment-27125 Rob K Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:39:24 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=4242#comment-27125 "Once again, lawmakers are willing to impose on the District something they wouldn’t contemplate for their home districts." Not only are firearms legal in the areas Souder represents, Indiana has state-wide preemption. Gary would be just like Chicago otherwise. “Once again, lawmakers are willing to impose on the District something they wouldn’t contemplate for their home districts.”

Not only are firearms legal in the areas Souder represents, Indiana has state-wide preemption. Gary would be just like Chicago otherwise.

]]> By: Peter http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/07/25/washington-posts-constitution/#comment-27123 Peter Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:19:23 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=4242#comment-27123 You've got to figure that if the WaPo is upset with this, then Congress, for once, is onto the right thing. :) You’ve got to figure that if the WaPo is upset with this, then Congress, for once, is onto the right thing. :)

]]> By: RAH http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/07/25/washington-posts-constitution/#comment-27110 RAH Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:26:12 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=4242#comment-27110 Home rule was a mistake. It was a reaction to the riots that destroyed portions of DC. DC was much better run before Home rule. But like at the time colonial powers were giving up territory Congress felt it was better to give home rule to DC. Believe it or not the current and the last mayor is the best yet. Congress has the authority under the Constitution but the Democrats will not allow this bill. It is a shame that a good portion of GOP voters decided to sit out the 2006 election in petulance. It lost too many house seats. Home rule was a mistake. It was a reaction to the riots that destroyed portions of DC. DC was much better run before Home rule. But like at the time colonial powers were giving up territory Congress felt it was better to give home rule to DC. Believe it or not the current and the last mayor is the best yet.

Congress has the authority under the Constitution but the Democrats will not allow this bill. It is a shame that a good portion of GOP voters decided to sit out the 2006 election in petulance. It lost too many house seats.

]]> By: Robert http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/07/25/washington-posts-constitution/#comment-27094 Robert Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:38:08 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=4242#comment-27094 When Mayor Fenty and the DC City Council decided to take their case to the SCOTUS, a case which they lost in the lower Federal District court by the way, that should have been the cue right then and there for Congress to annul the city government of DC entirely for its determined resolve to keep denying residents their civil right to keep and bear arms. I wish somebody in Congress had had the guts to say something about the unconstitutionality of the DC handgun ban back in 1976. I have yet to hear anybody explain why it took 32 years to end it. I lived in DC back in the 1990's, and I can attest to the glaring inefficiency and abuses of the city government there. This was all back in the days when Mayor Barry was smoking crack with prostitutes in hotel rooms. Meanwhile, the snow wasn't getting plowed in a timely fashion during the winter, DC cops were telling me that I was not allowed to sit on the front steps of my own Georgetown apartment house whenever there were large crowds gathered on nearby M Street on weekend evenings during the summer, potholes on streets all around the city never seemed to get filled much all year round, and nobody ever seemed to get arrested for any of the crimes that were committed against me (This includes two separate muggings.) or my property, even though I reported each and every crime to the police immediately. When Mayor Fenty and the DC City Council decided to take their case to the SCOTUS, a case which they lost in the lower Federal District court by the way, that should have been the cue right then and there for Congress to annul the city government of DC entirely for its determined resolve to keep denying residents their civil right to keep and bear arms.

I wish somebody in Congress had had the guts to say something about the unconstitutionality of the DC handgun ban back in 1976. I have yet to hear anybody explain why it took 32 years to end it.

I lived in DC back in the 1990’s, and I can attest to the glaring inefficiency and abuses of the city government there. This was all back in the days when Mayor Barry was smoking crack with prostitutes in hotel rooms. Meanwhile, the snow wasn’t getting plowed in a timely fashion during the winter, DC cops were telling me that I was not allowed to sit on the front steps of my own Georgetown apartment house whenever there were large crowds gathered on nearby M Street on weekend evenings during the summer, potholes on streets all around the city never seemed to get filled much all year round, and nobody ever seemed to get arrested for any of the crimes that were committed against me (This includes two separate muggings.) or my property, even though I reported each and every crime to the police immediately.

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